The Shiny Balancer - software and imbalance criteria for optimally balanced treatment allocation in small RCTs and cRCTs

The Shiny Balancer - software and imbalance criteria for optimally balanced treatment allocation in small RCTs and cRCTs

Abstract Background In randomised controlled trials with only few randomisation units, treatment allocation may be challenging if balanced distributions of many covariates or baseline outcome measures are desired across all treatment groups. Both traditional approaches, stratified randomisation and...

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Main Author: Thomas Grischott
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-10-01
Series:BMC Medical Research Methodology
Subjects:
Randomisation
Minimisation
Treatment allocation
Covariate-adaptive
Imbalance measure
Imbalance metric
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12874-018-0551-5

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