Effect of imbalance and intracluster correlation coefficient in cluster randomization trials with binary outcomes when the available number of clusters is fixed in advance

Contemporary Clinical Trials

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 317-320

  Ahn, Chul ^a   Hu, Fan ^b   Skinner, Celette Sugg ^a   Ahn, Daniel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Binary outcomes; Intracluster correlation; sample size; Varying cluster size

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; SAMPLE SIZE; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 67349122767     PISSN: 15517144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2009.03.007     Document Type: Article

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