Accounting for centre-effects in multicentre trials with a binary outcome - When, why, and how?

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Kahan, Brennan C ^a,b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC CLINICAL TRIALS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Binary outcomes; Fixed effects; Generalised estimating equations; Mantel Haenszel; Multicentre trials; Random effects; Randomised controlled trial

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); PLEURA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; PLEURA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

EID: 84893664217     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-14-20     Document Type: Article

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