Longitudinal data analysis (repeated measures) in clinical trials

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 1707-1732

  Albert, Paul S ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; MONITORING;

CLINICAL TRIALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RESEARCH DESIGN; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0033565436     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19990715)18:13<1707::AID-SIM138>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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