May 2021
Beginner
306 pages
6h 20m
English
Whether you are reading a study or designing your own, one of the most important factors that you should consider is the study design. For example, are you going to randomly assign subjects to different treatments, or are you simply going to observe outcomes in people who have some trait in common? This chapter describes some of the commonly used study designs, and this discussion will help you decide the quality of study results and how much faith you should have in the results, regardless of the p-value or size of the effect.
This is the “gold standard” of all study designs. Even though the term “clinical” is in the title, this study design can be used in all fields ...