Optimality of Equal vs. Unequal Cluster Sizes in Multilevel Intervention Studies: A Monte Carlo Study for Small Sample Sizes

DOI10.1080/03610910701724052MaRDI QIDQ5451133zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Math J. J. M. Candel, Gerard J. P. van Breukelen, Larissa Kotova, Martijn P. F. Berger

Publication date 18 March 2008

Published in Communications in Statistics. Simulation and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/ws/files/72609013/candel_2008_optimality_of_equal_vs_unequal_cluster.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

mean squared error\(D\)-optimalityrelative efficiency\(D_s\)-optimality(restricted) maximum likelihoodmultilevel intervention studiesunequal cluster sizes

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Monte Carlo methods (65C05) Optimal statistical designs (62K05)

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