The effects of alternative study designs on the power of community randomized trials: evidence from three studies of human immunodeficiency virus prevention in East Africa
Аннотация:Background Randomized intervention trials in which the community is the unit of randomization are increasingly being used to evaluate the impact of public health interventions. In the design of community randomized trials (CRT), the power of the study is likely to be affected by two issues: the matching or stratification of communities, and the number and size of the communities to be randomized.
