Bayesian tobit modeling of longitudinal ordinal clinical trial compliance data with nonignorable missingness

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 91, Issue 433, 1996, Pages 86-98

  Cowles, Mary Kathryn ^a   Carlin, Bradley P ^b   Connett, John E ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gibbs sampling; Repeated measures

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002276548     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1996.10476666     Document Type: Article

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