Penny-wise and pound-foolish: The impact of measurement error on sample size requirements in clinical trials

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 762-766

  Perkins, Diana O ^a   Wyatt, Richard Jed ^b   Bartko, John J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Interrater reliability; Measurement error; Power; Reliability; Research methods

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; COST CONTROL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ERROR; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; MENTAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SAMPLE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CLINICAL TRIALS; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; PLACEBOS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0034656321     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(00)00837-4     Document Type: Article

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