Intent-to-treat analysis for longitudinal studies with drop-outs

Biometrics

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1324-1333

  Little, Roderick ^a   Yau, Linda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical trials; Imputation; Incomplete data; Missing values; Multiple imputation; Repeated measures

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES;

CLINICAL TRIAL; DATA SET; DROP-OUT; IMPUTATION; INCOMPLETE DATA; LONGITUDINAL DATA; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MISSING VALUES; MULTIPLE IMPUTATION; REPEATED MEASURES;

DROPS;

TACRINE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; DATA ANALYSIS; DRUG EFFICACY;

EID: 0030460385     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2532847     Document Type: Article

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