Multi-level models for repeated measurement data: Application to quality of life data in clinical trials

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 24, 1996, Pages 2717-2732

  Beacon, Heather J ^a   Thompson, Simon G ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFERENCE PAPER; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; QUALITY OF LIFE; STATISTICAL MODEL; VARIANCE;

CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CLINICAL TRIALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PALLIATIVE CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 0030464569     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19961230)15:24<2717::AID-SIM518>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Conference Paper

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