Identifying settings when permutation tests have nominal size with paired, binary-outcome, group randomized trials

Journal of Nonparametric Statistics

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 653-663

  Braun, Thomas M ^a   Feng, Ziding ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster randomization; Copulas; Correlated binary data; Randomization tests

Indexed keywords

EID: 0348198932     PISSN: 10485252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10485250310001624765     Document Type: Article

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