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Designing Randomised Trials in Health, Education and the Social Sciences
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The book focuses on the design of rigorous trials rather than their statistical underpinnings, with chapters on: pragmatic designs; placebo designs; preference approaches; unequal allocation; economic
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“As such, we interpret the effects reported in Grieve et al . (2022) as those of a randomized field or pragmatic trials (Thorpe et al ., 2009; Torgerson and Torgerson, 2008; Tosh et al ., 2011).”
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- Torgerson, D. J., & Torgerson, C. J.
- Affiliations
- University of York (GB)
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- Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks
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- Palgrave Macmillan UK
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- 2008
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- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Optimal Experimental Design Methods
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
- Keywords
- randomised trials, trial design, pragmatic trials, unequal allocation, economic evaluation, health research, educational research, social science research
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