Sample size considerations for assessing treatment effect heterogeneity in randomized trials with heterogeneous intracluster correlations and variances
Tong G, Taljaard M, Li F. Sample size considerations for assessing treatment effect heterogeneity in randomized trials with heterogeneous intracluster correlations and variances. Statistics In Medicine 2023, 42: 3392-3412. PMID: 37316956, DOI: 10.1002/sim.9811.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsGroup treatment trialsTreatment effect modificationRandomized trialsTreatment trialsEffect modificationEffect modifiersIntracluster correlation coefficientIndividual-level effect modifiersStudy armsTreatment effect heterogeneityOutcome observationsContinuous outcomesTrialsGroup treatmentTreatment effectsOutcome varianceEffect heterogeneityIntracluster correlationSample sizeSample size formula