Developing a Multicenter Randomized Trial in Criminology: The Case of HIDTA

Journal of Quantitative Criminology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 315-340

  Weisburd, David ^a,b   Taxman, Faye S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Criminal justice; Drug treatment; Meta analysis; Multicenter randomized trial; Randomized experiments; Replication studies; Statistical power

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034361409     PISSN: 07484518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007574906103     Document Type: Article

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