Lynn Shaffer's Research Essentials
The essentials for interpreting research and statistics
What It is Patients to be enrolled in a trial are taken a few at a time, depending on the number of study groups – this is called a “block.” Within this small number (typically <10), all possible orderings of the study groups are spelled out. (e.g., for a block size of four patients in…
Scroll down to the bottom of this post for the essentials. At last we come to a trial which was published within the last year (October 2019), in the American Journal of Perinatology. The present trial, which I’ll refer to as the “confirmatory trial,” was meant to confirm the results of the Meis trial (see…