Re: st: Computing effect size for a clustered randomized control trial

[Scott Baldwin <baldwinlist@gmail.com>]

I'm not aware of any built in or user-written method in Stata for
computing power in cluster randomized trials. You can try the Optimal
Design software
(http://sitemaker.umich.edu/group-based/optimal_design_software) or
the formulae in David Murray's book "Design and analysis of group
randomized trials."

Best,
Scott


On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Joe McCrary <joe.mccrary@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am designing a randomized control trial, where we are going to
> select about 12 students per classroom and randomize them into 3
> groups, a control and 2 treatment groups. Is there a way I can compute
> the number of classrooms needed for the study using the following
> criteria:
>
> Desired power=0.8
> Estimated effect size = 0.2
> alpha = 0.0167
> 1 pre-test measure
> 1 post-test measure
> approx correlation between the two measures = 0.25
>
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