Prospective individual matching: Covariate balance and power in a comparative study

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 13, 1998, Pages 1517-1526

  Makuch, Robert W ^a   Zhang, Zhongxin ^b   Charpentier, Peter A ^a   Inouye, Sharon K ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; METHODOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE II; CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE IV; HUMANS; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SELECTION BIAS;

EID: 0032527985     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19980715)17:13<1517::AID-SIM859>3.0.CO;2-0     Document Type: Review

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