Re-estimating sample size in cluster randomised trials with active recruitment within clusters

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 3253-3268

  van Schie, S ^a   Moerbeek, M ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

A priori power analysis; Hierarchical data; Intracluster correlation coefficient; Type I error

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CLUSTER RANDOMIZED TRIAL; FEASIBILITY STUDY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PILOT STUDY; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STUDY DESIGN; ALGORITHM; BIOSTATISTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; PATIENT SELECTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOSTATISTICS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATIENT SELECTION; PILOT PROJECTS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 84904007462     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.6172     Document Type: Article

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