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Geographic pair-matching significantly enhances statistical efficiency in large public health trials. This method can double the precision of cluster randomized trials, reducing sample size and costs for child health outcomes.

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  • Public Health
  • Epidemiology
  • Biostatistics

Background:

  • Cluster randomized trials are crucial for evaluating large-scale public health interventions.
  • Improving statistical efficiency in these trials can substantially reduce sample size and costs.
  • Pair-matching randomization is a potential strategy for enhancing trial efficiency, but its application in large field trials remains unevaluated.

Conclusions:

  • Geographic pair-matching offers broad and substantial benefits for large-scale, cluster randomized trials.
  • This design significantly improves statistical efficiency, potentially halving the required sample size.
  • The method enables robust analysis of spatially varying intervention effects in public health research.