A comparison of recent methods for the analysis of small-sample cross-over studies

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 18, 2003, Pages 2821-2833

  Chen, Xun ^a   Wei, Lynn ^a  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

ANOVA; Cross over study; EGLS; Empirical power; Robust; Small sample; Variance covariance structure

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; EMPIRICISM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RELIABILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 0141625672     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1537     Document Type: Article

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