Crossover or parallel design in infertility trials? The discussion continues

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 40-45

  Cohlen, Bernard J ^a   Te Velde, Egbert R ^b   Looman, Caspar W N ^b   Eijckemans, René ^b   Habbema, J Dik F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Crossover design; Infertility trials; Parallel design; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBFERTILITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; MALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 0032124872     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(98)00114-9     Document Type: Article

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