Using structural-nested models to estimate the effect of cluster-level adherence on individual-level outcomes with a three-armed cluster-randomized trial

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1490-1502

  Brumback, Babette A ^a   He, Zhulin ^b   Prasad, Mansi ^a   Freeman, Matthew C ^c   Rheingans, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adherence; Complex survey data; Instrumental variables; Structural nested models; Three armed randomized clinical trial; Unmeasured confounding

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; HAND WASHING; INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME VARIABLE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SANITATION; SCHOOL HYGIENE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STRUCTURAL NESTED MODEL; WATER TREATMENT; ABSENTEEISM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HYGIENE; KENYA; PROCEDURES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE; STATISTICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ABSENTEEISM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HYGIENE; KENYA; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SANITATION; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84898057093     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.6049     Document Type: Article

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