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Design effect in multicenter studies: gain or loss of power?

BACKGROUND: In a multicenter trial, responses for subjects belonging to a common center are correlated. Such a clustering is usually assessed through the design effect, defined as a ratio of two variances. The aim of this work was to describe and understand situations where the design effect involve...

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Autores principales: Vierron, Emilie, Giraudeau, Bruno
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2715424/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19538744
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-9-39