A multilevel analysis of longitudinal ordinal data: Evaluation of the level of physical performance of women receiving adjuvant therapy for breast cancer

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 162, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 349-360

  Ribaudo, Heather J ^a   Bacchi, Marisa ^b   Bernhard, Jürg ^b   Thompson, Simon G ^c  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Swiss Institute for Applied Cancer Research   (Switzerland)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Multilevel model; Ordinal data; Proportional odds; Quality of life; Repeated measurements

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033474508     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-985X.00140     Document Type: Article

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