The efficiency of the matched-pairs design of the community intervention trial for smoking cessation (COMMIT)

Controlled Clinical Trials

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 131-139

  Freedman, Laurence S ^a   Gail, Mitchell H ^a   Green, Sylvan B ^a   Corle, Donald K ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

behavioral change; cluster randomization; community intervention; group randomization; matching; relative efficiency; smoking cessation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SMOKING CESSATION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EFFICIENCY; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SMOKING CESSATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030913113     PISSN: 01972456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0197-2456(96)00115-8     Document Type: Article

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