On determination of sample size in hierarchical binomial models

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 14, 2001, Pages 2163-2182

  Zou, Kelly H ^a,b,c   Normand, Sharon Lise T ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; PROBABILITY; SAMPLING; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

CLINICAL TRIALS; COHORT STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTICENTER STUDIES; PATIENT DISCHARGE; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 0035974326     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.855     Document Type: Article

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