Estimation and comparison of rates of change in longitudinal studies with informative drop-outs

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1215-1233

  Touloumi, G ^a,b   Pocock, S J ^a   Babiker, A G ^c   Darbyshire, J H ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^c ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL;

EID: 0033617682     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19990530)18:10<1215::AID-SIM118>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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