Sentence examples for each cluster was allocated from inspiring English sources
At this point each facilitator divided their group (20/21 students) into seven clusters of 2 or 3 students and allocated one of the seven cases to each cluster such that each cluster was allocated a different case study.
Each group was then divided into seven subgroups, or clusters, of 2 or 3 students wh each cluster being allocated a specific case.
Participants in each cluster were allocated to a 10-week intervention period receiving either physical exercise at the hospital or physical exercise at home.
Thirty participants per cluster were allocated to one or more physicians in each cluster to increase heterogeneity (figure 1).
To minimize imbalance over several strata with odd numbers of clusters, these strata were paired, and clusters were alternately allocated to either training or control, the first cluster being allocated to either training or control depending on the flip of a coin.
To minimise imbalance over several strata with odd numbers of clusters, these strata were paired, and clusters were alternately allocated to either training or control, the first cluster being allocated to either training or control depending on the flip of a coin.
All patient participants (and their relative where applicable) discharged from either ICU on a particular day (a cluster) were allocated to one of the three study groups (figure 1).
Within each stratum, equal numbers of clusters were allocated to each arm.
Clusters were allocated within the four strata proportionally to the population of each village, based on the most recent population census in 2001 adjusted by an annual growth rate (Recensement general de la Population, 2001, Institut National de la Statistique).
Since 36 clusters (seventy five percent of the total 48 clusters) are allocated to PUs, we assume that these 36 licensed clusters are occupied by 36 uniformly distributed PUs.
