Overview of Randomized Control Trials

Peter Kaufmann

A Selected History of Behavioral Randomized Clinical Trials and What We Learned

Lynda Powell

The Diabetes Prevention Program

Rena Wing

Basic Design

Carlos Mendes de Leon

Selection of Test Measurements and Instruments for RCTs

William Chaplin

External and Internal Validity

Karina Davidson

Randomization and Unit of Randomization

Michael A. Proschan

Issues in Grantsmanship

Ronald P. Abeles

Control Groups, Blindness/Masking, Behavioral "Placebo"

Francis Keefe

RCT Designs for Dementia: Lessons from the Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study

Mary Sano

Practical Applications of Measurement to Clinical Trials

William Chaplin

Building, Leading, and Maintaining Effective Research Teams

Judith Ockene

Power Analysis and Sample Size

Michael Proschan

Hypothesis Specification: Alpha and Omega of Scientific Inquiry

Carlos Mendes de Leon

Survival Analysis

Michael Proschan

Diaries in Clinical Trials: When and How?

Arthur Stone

Treatment Implementation

Bonnie Spring

Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria

Nina Schooler

Practical Clinical Trials: Designing Trials for the Real World

Patrick McGrath

Missing Data: A Smoking Cessation Example

Bonnie Spring

Multi-arm Trials: Pharmocotherapy and Behavioral Intervention

Francois Lesperance

Adjusting for Covariates, Mediation and Moderation

Walter Ambrosius

Ethics of Randomized Control Trials

Jonathan D. Moreno

Data Safety and Monitoring Boards

Peter Kaufmann/
Nina Schooler

Anatomy of a Clinical Trial: Postmortem of the ENRICHED Study

James A. Blumenthal

Mixed Effects, Growth Curves, and Longitudinal Models

Walter Ambrosius