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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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 |