Analysis of data from group-randomized trials with repeat observations on the same groups

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 14, 1998, Pages 1581-1600

  Murray, David M ^a   Hannan, Peter J ^a   Wolfinger, Russell D ^b   Baker, William L ^a   Dwyer, James H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b SAS INSTITUTE INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS;

EID: 0032581453     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19980730)17:14<1581::AID-SIM864>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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