Sample size adjustments for varying cluster sizes in cluster randomized trials with binary outcomes analyzed with second-order PQL mixed logistic regression

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 1488-1501

  Candel, Math J J M ^a   Van Breukelen, Gerard J P ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cluster randomized trials; Mixed effects logistic regression; Quasi likelihood estimation; Sample size; Varying cluster sizes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MARGICAL QUASI-LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PENALIZED QUASI-LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PLANNING; PRODUCTIVITY; RANDOMIZATION; SAMPLE SIZE; SAMPLING; STATISTICS; VARIANCE;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 77953722574     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3857     Document Type: Article

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