2025
What Is a Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Trial?
Li F, Wang B, Heagerty P. What Is a Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Trial? JAMA Internal Medicine 2025, 185: 593-594. PMID: 40063042, PMCID: PMC12052484, DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.8216.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2024
A review of current practice in the design and analysis of extremely small stepped-wedge cluster randomized trials
Tong G, Nevins P, Ryan M, Davis-Plourde K, Ouyang Y, Macedo J, Meng C, Wang X, Caille A, Li F, Taljaard M. A review of current practice in the design and analysis of extremely small stepped-wedge cluster randomized trials. Clinical Trials 2024, 22: 45-56. PMID: 39377196, PMCID: PMC11810615, DOI: 10.1177/17407745241276137.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchSmall-sample correctionsStepped-wedge cluster randomized trialCluster randomized trialSample size calculation methodGeneralized linear mixed modelsLongitudinal correlation structureSize calculation methodLinear mixed modelsPermutation testSample sizeBayesian approachRandomized trialsCorrelation structureMixed modelsBayesian analysisGeneralized estimating equationsPermutationMedian sample sizeIntervention conditionRandomization methodEquationsMaintaining the validity of inference from linear mixed models in stepped-wedge cluster randomized trials under misspecified random-effects structures
Ouyang Y, Taljaard M, Forbes A, Li F. Maintaining the validity of inference from linear mixed models in stepped-wedge cluster randomized trials under misspecified random-effects structures. Statistical Methods In Medical Research 2024, 33: 1497-1516. PMID: 38807552, PMCID: PMC11499024, DOI: 10.1177/09622802241248382.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchRandom effects structureVariance estimationComplex correlation structureRobust variance estimationFixed effects parametersDegrees of freedom correctionCluster randomized trialEstimates of standard errorsCorrelation structureRandom effectsStepped-wedge cluster randomized trialComprehensive simulation studyLinear mixed modelsStatistical inferenceRandom intercept modelSimulation studyMixed modelsMisspecificationValidity of inferencesRandom interceptContinuous outcomesEstimationComputational challengesIntercept modelStandard error
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