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ArticleChildhood obesity (Print)2020

Incorrect Analyses of Cluster-Randomized Trials that Do Not Take Clustering and Nesting into Account Likely Lead to

Lilian Golzarri-Arroyo, J Michael Oakes, Andrew W Brown, David B Allison

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Article in Childhood obesity (Print), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Causal models and causal modelling in obesity: foundations, methods and evidence.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Lilian Golzarri-ArroyoSchool of Public Health, Indiana University-Bloomington, Bloomington, IN.
J Michael OakesSchool of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
Andrew W BrownSchool of Public Health, Indiana University-Bloomington, Bloomington, IN.
David B AllisonSchool of Public Health, Indiana University-Bloomington, Bloomington, IN.

Funding

Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity ResearchR25HL124208 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI ALLISON, DAVID B, BROWN, ANDREW W · 2014 to 2023
$1.8M
The Mathematical Sciences in Obesity ResearchR25DK099080 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI DAVID B ALLISON, Andrew W Brown · 2013 to 2026
$1.2M
NHLBI NIH HHS R25 HL124208NIDDK NIH HHS R25 DK099080
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Pediatric ObesitySocial MarketingAdolescentCluster AnalysisHealthy LifestyleHumansRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicResearch Design

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PMID32078372
PMCPMC7047086

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