Power in randomized group comparisons: The value of adding a single intermediate time point to a traditional pretest-posttest design

Psychological Methods

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 194-209

  Venter, Anre ^b   Maxwell, Scott E ^c   Bolig, Erika ^a  

^a Grand Rapids Public Museum   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS;

EID: 85047673159     PISSN: 1082989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1082-989X.7.2.194     Document Type: Article

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