Symmetrized percent change for treatment comparisons

American Statistician

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 27-31

  Berry, Donald A ^a   Ayers, Gregory D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Change from baseline; Expanded baseline eligibility; Measure of treatment effect; Required sample size; Robust percent change

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644688574     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/000313006X90684     Document Type: Article

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