Developments in cluster randomized trials and statistics in medicine

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 2-19

  Campbell, M J ^a   Donner, A ^b,c   Klar, N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cluster randomized trial; Cluster specific models; Consort statement; Generalized estimating equations; Matched pair design; Population averaged models

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CALCULATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; PUBLICATION; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICS;

BAYES THEOREM; BIOMETRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PUBLISHING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 33846199137     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2731     Document Type: Article

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