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NL888 Posted 12 years ago
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Non-random attrition of participants?
Should "non-random attrition of participants" be "non-random attribution of participants"?
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An intention-to-treat (ITT) analysis of the results of an http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiment is based on the initial treatment assignment and not on the treatment eventually received. ITT analysis is intended to avoid various misleading artifacts that can arise in intervention research such as non-random attrition of participants from the study or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossover_study. ITT is also simpler than other forms of study design and analysis because it does not require observation of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compliance_(medicine) status for units assigned to different treatments or incorporation of compliance into the analysis. Although ITT analysis is widely employed in published clinical trials, it can be incorrectly described and there are some issues to its application.[1] Furthermore, there is no consensus on how to carry out an ITT analysis in the presence of missing outcome data.[2]
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Intention-to-treat analysis
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intention-to-treat_analysis#mw-navigation, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intention-to-treat_analysis#p-search
An intention-to-treat (ITT) analysis of the results of an http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiment is based on the initial treatment assignment and not on the treatment eventually received. ITT analysis is intended to avoid various misleading artifacts that can arise in intervention research such as non-random attrition of participants from the study or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossover_study. ITT is also simpler than other forms of study design and analysis because it does not require observation of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compliance_(medicine) status for units assigned to different treatments or incorporation of compliance into the analysis. Although ITT analysis is widely employed in published clinical trials, it can be incorrectly described and there are some issues to its application.[1] Furthermore, there is no consensus on how to carry out an ITT analysis in the presence of missing outcome data.[2]
More:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intention-to-treat_analysis
Top answer
No, I think it does mean "attrition". It's referring to participants dropping out of the experiment.
- No, I think it does mean "attrition".
- It's referring to participants dropping out of the experiment.
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No, I think it does mean "attrition". It's referring to participants dropping out of the experiment.
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Should "non-random attrition of participants" be "non-random attribution of participants"?
I can't believe that Wikipedia would make such an error!
Attritious loss would be the gradual reduction in the number of participants.
If it were random, the outco
I can't believe that Wikipedia would make such an error!
Attritious loss would be the gradual reduction in the number of participants.
If it were random, the outco
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