Adaptive pair-matching in randomized trials with unbiased and efficient effect estimation

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 999-1011

  Balzer, Laura B ^a   Petersen, Maya L ^a   van der Laan, Mark J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive designs; Causal inference; Efficiency; Pair matching; Randomized trials; Targeted minimum loss based estimation (TMLE)

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE PAIR MATCHING MODEL; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROCESS MODEL; STATISTICAL MODEL; AFRICA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HIV INFECTIONS; METHODOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT;

AFRICA; ANTI-RETROVIRAL AGENTS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84961291757     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.6380     Document Type: Article

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