Sample size calculations for micro-randomized trials in mHealth

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 1944-1971

  Liao, Peng ^a   Klasnja, Predrag ^a   Tewari, Ambuj ^a   Murphy, Susan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Health; Mirco randomized trial; Sample size calculation

Indexed keywords

CALCULATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOBILE APPLICATION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAMPLE SIZE; STUDY DESIGN; THUMB; EXERCISE; HEALTH PROMOTION; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STANDARDS; STATISTICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

EXERCISE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84953431798     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.6847     Document Type: Article

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