Cluster-crossover design: A method for limiting clusters level effect in community-intervention studies

Contemporary Clinical Trials

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 316-323

  Parienti, Jean Jacques ^a,b   Kuss, Oliver ^c  

^a CHU CÔTE DE NACRE   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Crossover; Mixed models; Trial design

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; DATA ANALYSIS; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CLINICAL TRIALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 33847274642     PISSN: 15517144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2006.10.004     Document Type: Article

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