Person-time analysis of paired community intervention trials when the number of communities is small

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 18, 1998, Pages 2121-2132

  Brookmeyer, Ron ^a   Chen, Ying Qing ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAMPLE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AFRICA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

EID: 0032581930     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19980930)17:18<2121::AID-SIM907>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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