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Due to the dependency structure in the sampling process, adaptive trial designs create challenges in point and interval estimation and in the calculation of P‐values. Optimal adaptive designs, which are designs where the parameters governing the adaptivity are chosen to maximize some performance criterion, suffer from the same problem. Various analysis methods which are able to handle this dependency...