DOES PAIR-MATCHING ON ORDERED BASELINE MEASURES INCREASE POWER: A SIMULATION STUDY

It has been shown that pair-matching on an ordered baseline with normally distributed measures reduces the variance of the estimated treatment effect (Park and Johnson, 2006). The main objective of this study is to examine if pair-matching improves the power when the distribution is a mixture of tw...

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Main Author: Jin, Yan
Format: Others
Published: VCU Scholars Compass 2012
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Online Access:http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/399
http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1398&context=etd