Journal article
Optimal stepped wedge designs
J Lawrie, JB Carlin, AB Forbes
Statistics and Probability Letters | Published : 2015
Abstract
Stepped wedge randomised trials are increasingly popular. Here we derive the optimal design for a fixed number of periods; this does not allocate an equal number of cluster units to each treatment sequence as might otherwise have been expected.
Grants
Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Acknowledgements
Jock Lawrie was supported under a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Centre of Research Excellence grant, ID1035261, to the Victorian Centre for Biostatistics (ViCBiostat). The Murdoch Childrens Research Institute is supported by the Victorian Government's Operational Infrastructure Support Program.