Comparing methods to estimate treatment effects on a continuous outcome in multicentre randomized controlled trials: A simulation study

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Chu, Rong ^a,b   Thabane, Lehana ^a,b,c   Ma, Jinhui ^a,b   Holbrook, Anne ^a,c   Pullenayegum, Eleanor ^a,b,c   Devereaux, Philip James ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ST JOSEPH S HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^c CENTRE FOR EVALUATION OF MEDICINES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ALGORITHMS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINEAR MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79951708426     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-11-21     Document Type: Article

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