Powerful and cost-efficient designs for longitudinal intervention studies with two treatment groups

Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 41-61

  Moerbeek, Mirjam ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dropout; Polynomial growth model; Power; Sample sizes; Study duration

Indexed keywords

EID: 40749100263     PISSN: 10769986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/1076998607302630     Document Type: Article

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