Two-way minimization: A novel treatment allocation method for small trials

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Chen, Lan Hsin ^a   Lee, Wen Chung ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; COVARIANCE; DATA ANALYSIS; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH SUBJECT; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TWO WAY MINIMIZATION; ALGORITHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; RANDOMIZATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROGNOSIS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SELECTION BIAS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 82855168083     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028604     Document Type: Article

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