A simple approach to test for interaction between intervention and an individual‐level variable in community randomized trials

Objective  To develop a simple and robust approach for the test of interaction between community intervention and an individual‐level variable suitable for use in typical situations of community randomized trials (CRTs), i.e. small number of communities but large number of subjects per community.

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