Assessing potential sources of clustering in individually randomised trials
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Assessing potential sources of clustering in individually randomised trials
BACKGROUND Recent reviews have shown that while clustering is extremely common in individually randomised trials (for example, clustering within centre, therapist, or surgeon), it is rarely accounted for in the trial analysis. Our aim is to develop a general framework for assessing whether potential sources of clustering must be accounted for in the trial analysis to obtain valid type I error r...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Medical Research Methodology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1471-2288
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-13-58