Comparison of methods for estimating the intraclass correlation coefficient for binary responses in cancer prevention cluster randomized trials

Contemporary Clinical Trials

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 869-880

  Wu, Sheng ^a   Crespi, Catherine M ^a   Wong, Weng Kee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer screening; Cluster randomized trials; Correlated binary data; Intervention trials; Intraclass correlation coefficient

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER SCREENING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SAMPLE SIZE; SELF REPORT;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84864297644     PISSN: 15517144     EISSN: 15592030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2012.05.004     Document Type: Article

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