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Improving efficiency in the stepped-wedge trial design via Bayesian modeling with an informative prior for the time effects

BACKGROUND: In a cross-sectional stepped-wedge cluster randomized trial comparing usual care to a new intervention, treatment allocation and time are correlated by design because participants enrolled early in the trial predominantly receive usual care while those enrolled late in the trial predomin...

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Autores principales: Zhan, Denghuang, Ouyang, Yongdong, Xu, Liang, Wong, Hubert
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8174015/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33813906
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1740774520980052