Power, sample size and sampling costs for clustered data

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 81, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 852-860

  Tokola, K ^a   Larocque, D ^b   Nevalainen, J ^c   Oja, H ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b HEC MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Clustered data; Cost optimization; Sample size

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955145989     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2011.02.006     Document Type: Article

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