The effect of drop-out on the efficiency of longitudinal experiments

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 363-375

  Verbeke, Geert ^a   Lesaffre, Emmanuel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Drop out; Linear mixed model; Longitudinal data; Power distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033450787     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9876.00158     Document Type: Article

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