Assessing performance of a randomized versus a non-randomized study design

Contemporary Clinical Trials

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 293-303

  Raaijmakers, Maartje ^a   Koffijberg, Hendrik ^b   Posthumus, Jocelyne ^a   van Hout, Ben ^b   van Engeland, Herman ^a   Matthys, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Equivalence; Mahalanobis distance; Matching; Randomized controlled trial

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROL GROUP; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; METRIC SYSTEM; NONRANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PARENTS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 39049157284     PISSN: 15517144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2007.07.006     Document Type: Article

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