Bias in randomised factorial trials

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 26, 2013, Pages 4540-4549

  Kahan, Brennan C ^a  

^a MRC CLINICAL TRIALS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

2 2 factorial design; Factorial trials; Preliminary interaction test; Randomised controlled trial; Two stage analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FOUR ARM ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; SAMPLE SIZE; SECOND MULTICENTRE INTRAPLEURAL SEPSIS TRIAL; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; TWO STAGE ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRUG COMBINATION; METHODOLOGY; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STANDARDS; STATISTICAL BIAS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HUMANS; PLEURAL EFFUSION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84885419121     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5869     Document Type: Article

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