A comparison of four methods for the analysis of n-of-1 trials

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Chen, Xinlin ^a,b   Chen, Pingyan ^a  

^a SOUTHERN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GUANGZHOU UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; META ANALYSIS; MODEL; SAMPLE SIZE; STUDENT T TEST; ALGORITHM; METHODOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84912134645     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0087752     Document Type: Article

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