Best (but oft forgotten) practices: Testing for treatment effects in randomized trials by separate analyses of changes from baseline in each group is a misleading approach

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 991-994

  Bland, J Martin ^a   Altman, Douglas G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIETARY INTAKE; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT ERROR; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL HEALTH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STATISTICS; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WEIGHT REDUCTION; NUTRITIONAL SCIENCE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; UNITED KINGDOM;

GREAT BRITAIN; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; NUTRITIONAL SCIENCES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84946096138     PISSN: 00029165     EISSN: 19383207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.115.119768     Document Type: Review

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