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Lindquist EF (1940)

Statistical analysis in educational research. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

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Key passage(s)

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Acknowledgements

The editors are grateful to:

Robert Boruch, University of Pennsylvania, and Howard Bloom, MDRC, for suggestions offered on an earlier draft of the commentary attached to this record.

RELEVANT TOPICS

  • Treatment comparisons must be fair
  • Cluster allocation
  • Quantifying uncertainty

Key articles

  • Klar N, Donner A (2004).
    The impact of EF Lindquist’s 1940 text “Statistical Analysis in Educational Research” on cluster randomization.
  • Moberg J, Kramer M (2015).
    A brief history of the cluster randomized trial design.

All topics

  • Individual patient data
  • Pre-clinical
  • Fair tests of treatments
    • The need to address treatment uncertainties
      • Principles of Testing
    • Treatment comparisons are essential
      • Dramatic effects
      • Placebo effects
    • Treatment comparisons must be fair
  • Biases
    • Design bias
    • Allocation bias
      • N-of-1 crossover
      • Cluster allocation
      • Crossover tests
      • Factorial design
    • Co-intervention bias
    • Observer bias
      • Double dummy
    • Analysis bias
    • Biases in judging unanticipated possible effects
    • Reporting bias
    • Biases in systematic reviews
    • Researcher/sponsor bias and fraud
  • The play of chance
    • Recording and interpreting numbers
    • Quantifying uncertainty
    • Using meta-analysis
  • Bringing it all together for the benefit of patients and the public
    • Improving reports of research
    • Preparing and maintaining systematic reviews
    • Using the results of research

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