Sample-size calculations for studies with correlated ordinal outcomes

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 19, 2005, Pages 2977-2987

  Kim, Hae Young ^a,b   Williamson, John M ^a   Lyles, Cynthia M ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlated data; Generalized estimating equations; Ordinal response; Power; Sample size

Indexed keywords

AURANOFIN; PLACEBO;

ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; GENERALIZED ESTIMATING EQUATION; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; PROBABILITY; ROCHON METHOD; SAMPLE SIZE; WALD TEST;

ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; AURANOFIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 26444451679     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2162     Document Type: Article

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