Explaining community-level variance in group randomized trials

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 539-556

  Feng, Ziding ^a   Diehr, Paula ^a   Yasui, Yutaka ^a   Evans, Brent ^b   Beresford, Shirley ^b   Koepsell, Thomas D ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; COVARIANCE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VARIANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS;

EID: 0033559940     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19990315)18:5<539::AID-SIM50>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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