A comparison of methods to analyse continuous data from pseudo cluster randomized trials

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 4100-4115

  Teerenstra, S ^a   Moerbeek, M ^b   Melis, R J F ^a   Borm, G F ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cluster randomization; Correlated data; GEE; Mixed models; Pseudo cluster randomization

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; RANDOMIZATION; RESEARCH SUBJECT; SAMPLE SIZE; VARIANCE;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BIOMETRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NETHERLANDS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 34548657205     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2851     Document Type: Article

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