Statistical Causality in participant unblinded randomised community trials.

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Statistical Causality in participant unblinded randomised community trials.

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University of Otago

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Introduction: The double-blinded randomised control trial (RCT) has been developed in order to provide gold standard estimation of causal effects. However, in many circumstances it is impossible to design studies that meet this standard of blinding and hence this potentially introduces a placebo effect. One example of a study where it was impossible to blind the participants was the Heating Housing and Health Study (HHHS); the intervention was the installation of modern, efficient heaters in ...

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Research paper

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Scholarly text / Thesis

Thesis level

Doctoral

Date created

2012

Creator

Pierse, Nevil

URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10523/2162

Related subjects

RCT / Blinding / Unblinded / placebo / effect / heating / asthma / Statistical / Methods

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