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Example Trial 1, Parallel Design Retrospective View
Example Trial 1, Parallel Design Retrospective View

The next diagram shows the trial from the viewpoint of blinded participants. To blinded participants in this trial, all arms look alike. They know when a subject is in the screen element or the run-in element, but when a subject is in the treatment epoch, participants know only that the subject is receiving a study drug, not which study drug, and therefore not which element. 

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Example Trial 1, Blinded View
Example Trial 1, Blinded View

A trial design matrix is a table with a row for each arm in the trial and a column for each epoch in the trial. It is closely related to the retrospective view of the trial, and many users may find it easier to construct a table than to draw a diagram. The cells in the matrix represent the study cells, which are populated with trial elements. In this trial, each study cell contains exactly 1 element.

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