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Statistical Causality in participant unblinded randomised community trials.

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Title
Statistical Causality in participant unblinded randomised community trials.
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University of Otago
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Otago University Research Archive
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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
Research format
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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