Balancing multiple baseline characteristics in randomized clinical trials

Contemporary Clinical Trials

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 547-550

  Su, Zheng ^a  

^a GENENTECH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Baseline covariates; Clinical trial; Imbalance; Optimization; Randomization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 79957464341     PISSN: 15517144     EISSN: 15592030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2011.03.004     Document Type: Article

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