ArticleStatistical methods in medical research2024
Demystifying estimands in cluster-randomised trials.
Article in Statistical methods in medical research, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.
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- Estimands and Doubly Robust Estimation for Cluster-Randomized Trials With Survival Outcomes.Statistics in medicine · 2026Article
- A sensitivity analysis approach to principal stratification with a continuous longitudinal intermediate outcome: applications to a cohort stepped wedge trial.Biostatistics (Oxford, England) · 2026Article
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- Development of a consensus extension of the estimands framework for cluster randomised trials (CRT-estimands): results from an international Delphi study.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- How Should Parallel Cluster Randomized Trials With a Baseline Period be Analyzed?-A Survey of Estimands and Common Estimators.Biometrical journal. Biometrische Zeitschrift · 2025Article
- Reporting of cluster randomised crossover trials: extension of the CONSORT 2010 statement with explanation and elaboration.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2025Article
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- Multilevel Intervention Stepped Wedge Designs (MLI-SWDs).Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2024Article
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Abstract
Estimands can help clarify the interpretation of treatment effects and ensure that estimators are aligned with the study's objectives. Cluster-randomised trials require additional attributes to be defined within the estimand compared to individually randomised trials, including whether treatment effects are
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