Relative efficiency of unequal cluster sizes for variance component estimation in cluster randomized and multicentre trials

Statistical Methods in Medical Research

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 439-458

  van Breukelen, Gerard J P ^a   Candel, Math J J ^a   Berger, Martijn P F ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZATION; SAMPLE SIZE; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VARIANCE;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 55249106645     PISSN: 09622802     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0962280206079018     Document Type: Article

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