What is it about?
Discusses a number of fallacies of randomisation including the claims that randomisation's value rests on its ability to produce balance, the fact that factors are balanced allows you to ignore them in the model and that larger trials are more balanced
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Why is it important?
Provides a simple, easily understandable analogy with a game of chance that helps the reader to understand the essence of the problem.
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: Seven myths of randomisation in clinical trials, Statistics in Medicine, December 2012, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5713.
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Resources
Lecture on Randomisation, Bristol September 2011
My lecture on Seven Myths of Randomisation given to the Clinical Trials Hubs meeting in Bristol 2011
Baseline Balance and Valid Statistical Analyses: Common Misunderstandings
Article available online in Applied Clinical Trials that introduces a game of chance involving two dice to explain randomisation.
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