Modeling clustering and treatment effect heterogeneity in parallel and stepped-wedge cluster randomized trials

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2018, Pages 883-898

  Hemming, Karla ^a   Taljaard, Monica ^b   Forbes, Andrew ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

cluster randomized trial; ICC; stepped wedge; treatment effect heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SIMULATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 85041481878     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.7553     Document Type: Article

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