title: Baseline balance and conditional size: a reply to Overall et al.
abstract: A previous paper in this journal mistakenly attributes a proposal to me that I did not make. I clear up the confusion. I also bring reasons to believe that the simulation presented in that paper is not relevant.
authors.affiliation: Medicine and Clinical Development Department, CIBA, Basel, Switzerland.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Senn
mesh_terms: D000704:Analysis of Variance; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013223:Statistics as Topic / Q000379:methods*