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Optimal allocation of clusters in cohort stepped wedge designs

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  • Li, Fan
  • Turner, Elizabeth L.
  • Preisser, John S.

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We study optimal allocation of clusters for a fixed number of periods in cohort stepped wedge cluster randomized trials. The optimal design turns more clusters into treatment during the second and final periods, and depends on values of correlation parameters.

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  • Li, Fan & Turner, Elizabeth L. & Preisser, John S., 2018. "Optimal allocation of clusters in cohort stepped wedge designs," Statistics & Probability Letters, Elsevier, vol. 137(C), pages 257-263.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:stapro:v:137:y:2018:i:c:p:257-263
    DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2018.02.002
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    2. Lawrie, Jock & Carlin, John B. & Forbes, Andrew B., 2015. "Optimal stepped wedge designs," Statistics & Probability Letters, Elsevier, vol. 99(C), pages 210-214.
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    1. John N. S. Matthews, 2020. "Highly efficient stepped wedge designs for clusters of unequal size," Biometrics, The International Biometric Society, vol. 76(4), pages 1167-1176, December.
    2. Bowden, Rhys & Forbes, Andrew B. & Kasza, Jessica, 2021. "On the centrosymmetry of treatment effect estimators for stepped wedge and related cluster randomized trial designs," Statistics & Probability Letters, Elsevier, vol. 172(C).
    3. Ruoxuan Xiong & Susan Athey & Mohsen Bayati & Guido Imbens, 2019. "Optimal Experimental Design for Staggered Rollouts," Papers 1911.03764, arXiv.org, revised Sep 2023.
    4. Jessica Kasza & Andrew B. Forbes, 2019. "Information content of cluster–period cells in stepped wedge trials," Biometrics, The International Biometric Society, vol. 75(1), pages 144-152, March.

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