Current and future challenges in the design and analysis of cluster randomization trials

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 24, 2001, Pages 3729-3740

  Touloumi, G ^a,c   Babiker, A G ^a   Pocock, S J ^b   Darbyshire, J H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECONOMICS; FAMILY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIFESTYLE; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; PLANNING; PROPHYLAXIS; RANDOMIZATION; SCHOOL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WORKPLACE;

ADULT; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ETHICS; FORECASTING; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; META-ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE; SMOKING CESSATION; VITAMIN A;

EID: 0035977431     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1115     Document Type: Article

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