When a clinical trial is conducted at more than one centre it is likely that the true treatment effect will not be identical at each centre. In other words there will be some degree of treatment-by-centre interaction. A number of alternative approaches for dealing with this have been suggested in th
A comparison of various estimators of reliability
โ Scribed by Ramesh C. Gupta; R.D. Gupta
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1987
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 499 KB
- Volume
- 5
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0167-9473
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