The robustness of designs for trials with nested data against incorrect initial intracluster correlation coefficient estimates

Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 566-585

  Korendijk, Elly J H ^a   Moerbeek, Mirjam ^a   Maas, Cora J M ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

allocation of units; cluster randomized trial; multilevel model; relative efficiency; trial with partially nested data

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857207996     PISSN: 10769986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/1076998609360774     Document Type: Review

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