A note on the use of the variance inflation factor for determining sample size in cluster randomized trials

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series D: The Statistician

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 479-484

  Ukoumunne, Obioha C ^a   Gulliford, Martin C ^b   Chinn, Susan ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cluster randomized trial; Components of variance; Design effect; Intraclass (intracluster) correlation coefficient; Variance inflation factor

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038891446     PISSN: 00390526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9884.00332     Document Type: Article

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