Improved standard error estimator for maintaining the validity of inference in cluster randomized trials with a small number of clusters

Biometrical Journal

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 478-495

  Ford, Whitney P ^a   Westgate, Philip M ^a  

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

Author keywords

Cluster randomized trials; Empirical standard error; Generalized estimating equations; Group randomized trials; Test size

Indexed keywords

ERRORS;

CLUSTER RANDOMIZED TRIALS; EMPIRICAL STANDARD ERROR; ERROR ESTIMATES; GENERALIZED ESTIMATING EQUATIONS; GROUP RANDOMIZED TRIAL; NUMBER OF CLUSTERS; RANDOMIZED TRIAL; STANDARD ERRORS; TEST SIZE; TYPE I ERROR RATE;

COVARIANCE MATRIX;

BIOMETRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BIOMETRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 85011340423     PISSN: 03233847     EISSN: 15214036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bimj.201600182     Document Type: Article

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