Toward Rigorous Idiographic Research in Prevention Science: Comparison Between Three Analytic Strategies for Testing Preventive Intervention in Very Small Samples

Prevention Science

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 267-278

  Ridenour, Ty A ^a   Pineo, Thomas Z ^b   Maldonado Molina, Mildred M ^c   Hassmiller Lich, Kristen ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

ARIMA; Blood glucose; Diabetes; Indicated prevention; Mixed model trajectory analysis; P technique; Selective prevention; Sliding scale

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; HUMAN; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE;

DIABETES MELLITUS; HUMANS; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE;

EID: 84876452822     PISSN: 13894986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11121-012-0311-4     Document Type: Article

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