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	طراحی آزمایشی گروه کنترل تصادفی خوشه‌ای	آزمایش تصادفی عاملی (Factorial Randomized Controlled Trial)
حوزه	طراحی آزمایش	طراحی آزمایش
خانواده	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
سال پیدایش	1990s (formal methodology development)	1926 (Fisher factorial foundations); 2000s–2010s (clinical factorial RCT formalization)
پدیدآور	Murray, D. M.; Donner, A. and Klar, N. (systematic formalization)	R. A. Fisher (factorial design foundations); adapted into clinical trials via MOST framework (Collins et al., 2014)
نوع	Experimental design	Experimental trial design
منبع بنیادین	Donner, A., & Klar, N. (2000). Design and Analysis of Cluster Randomization Trials in Health Research. Arnold. ISBN: 978-0340691533	Collins, L. M., Dziak, J. J., Kugler, K. C., & Trail, J. B. (2014). Factorial experiments: Efficient tools for evaluation of intervention components. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 47(4), 498–504.
نام‌های دیگر	CRCT with control group, group-randomized trial, cluster RCT control group design, community randomized controlled trial	Factorial RCT, factorial trial, multi-factor RCT, factorial experiment with randomization
مرتبط	6	6
خلاصه	A cluster randomized control group experimental design randomly assigns intact groups (clusters) — such as schools, clinics, or communities — rather than individuals to treatment or control conditions. At least one cluster group receives no active intervention, serving as the control. This design is essential when individual randomization is impractical or contamination between participants in close proximity is likely.	A factorial randomized controlled trial (factorial RCT) is an experimental design in which participants are randomly assigned to every possible combination of two or more independent factors (treatments or intervention components) simultaneously. This allows researchers to estimate the main effect of each factor and their interactions within a single, efficient trial, rather than running separate experiments for each factor.