Design effect in multicenter studies: Gain or loss of power?

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Vierron, Emilie ^a,b,c   Giraudeau, Bruno ^a,b,c  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF TOURS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 68049123141     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-9-39     Document Type: Article

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