Comments on 'Efficiency loss because of varying cluster size in cluster randomized trials is smaller than literature suggests'

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 397-400

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

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENERAL PRACTICE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LETTER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZATION; SAMPLE SIZE; UNITED KINGDOM;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 84855965226     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4449     Document Type: Letter

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