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Incorrect design and analysis render conclusion unsubstantiated: comment on “A digital movement in the world of inactive children: favourable outcomes of playing active video games in a pilot randomized trial”

Authors: Lilian Golzarri-Arroyo, Colby J. Vorland, Lehana Thabane, J. Michael Oakes, Ethan T. Hunt, Andrew W. Brown, David B. Allison

Published in: European Journal of Pediatrics | Issue 9/2020

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Cluster randomized trials offer a design that allows researchers to randomize intact groups of subjects to treatment and to analyze groups of individuals where the effects of treatments are confounded with the groups. However, it is crucial that data are analyzed per the unit of randomization to draw valid conclusions. …

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Title: Incorrect design and analysis render conclusion unsubstantiated: comment on “A digital movement in the world of inactive children: favourable outcomes of playing active video games in a pilot randomized trial”
Authors: Lilian Golzarri-Arroyo
Colby J. Vorland
Lehana Thabane
J. Michael Oakes
Ethan T. Hunt
Andrew W. Brown
David B. Allison
Publication date: 01-09-2020
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: European Journal of Pediatrics / Issue 9/2020
Print ISSN: 0340-6199
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1076
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00431-020-03590-y

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