Sample size calculation for multicenter randomized trial: Taking the center effect into account

Contemporary Clinical Trials

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 451-458

  Vierron, Emilie ^a,b   Giraudeau, Bruno ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Center effect; Intraclass correlation coefficient; Multicenter randomized trial; Sample size

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; INFLIXIMAB; PLACEBO;

ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; AUTOLOGOUS HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CALCULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; ISCHIALGIA; MULTICENTER STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAMPLE SIZE; SIMULATION; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; STATISTICAL MODEL; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION;

HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTICENTER STUDIES; PATIENT SELECTION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 34248536269     PISSN: 15517144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2006.11.003     Document Type: Article

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