Power analyses for correlations from clustered study designs

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 2587-2606

  Tu, Xin M ^a,b   Kowalski, J ^c   Crits Christoph, P ^d   Gallop, R ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic distribution; Longitudinal study; Repeated measures; Robustness; Surrogacy condition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; CALCULATION; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; POWER ANALYSIS; SAMPLE SIZE; SIMULATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CLINICAL TRIALS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 33746158498     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2273     Document Type: Article

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