The merits of breaking the matches: A cautionary tale

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2036-2051

  Donner, Allan ^a,b   Taljaard, Monica ^c   Klar, Neil ^a  

^a WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cluster randomization; Community intervention trial; Regression analysis

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NURSING CARE; OUTCOME VARIABLE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ASTHMA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 34047236824     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2662     Document Type: Article

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