Some aspects of the design and analysis of cluster randomization trials

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 95-113

  Donner, Allan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antenatal care; Clinical trials; Correlated binary data; Group randomization; Sample size estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040163566     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9876.00100     Document Type: Article

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