Incorporating cost in power analysis for three-level cluster-randomized designs

Evaluation Review

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 335-357

  Konstantopoulos, Spyros ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Multilevel experimental designs; Optimal design; Statistical power

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 69249090519     PISSN: 0193841X     EISSN: 15523926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0193841X09337991     Document Type: Article

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