Intra-cluster correlation selection for cluster randomized trials

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 19, 2016, Pages 3272-3284

  Westgate, Philip M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY COLLEGE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

empirical covariance matrix; generalized estimating equations; group randomized trial; power; variance inflation

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; COVARIANCE; ERROR; HUMAN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

EID: 84977618885     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.6922     Document Type: Article

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