Properties of internal pilots with the univariate approach to repeated measures

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 2469-2485

  Coffey, Christopher S ^a   Muller, Keith E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Geisser Greenhouse; Hunyh Feldt; Internal pilots; Power; Repeated measures

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COVARIANCE; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SAMPLE SIZE; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STUDENT T TEST;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CLINICAL TRIALS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PILOT PROJECTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0041633642     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1466     Document Type: Article

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