Issues for covariance analysis of dichotomous and ordered categorical data from randomized clinical trials and non-parametric strategies for addressing them

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 15-16, 1998, Pages 1863-1892

  Koch, Gary G ^a,b   Tangen, Catherine M ^a,c   Jung, Jin Whan ^a,d   Amara, Ingrid A ^a,e  

^a The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d SAS INSTITUTE INC   (United States)

^e IQVIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; COVARIANCE; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VARIANCE;

EID: 0032528855     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0258(19980815/30)17:15/16<1863::aid-sim989>3.0.co;2-m     Document Type: Conference Paper

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