The impact of measurement error on the comparison of two treatments using a responder analysis

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 2177-2188

  Oppenheimer, Leonard ^a   Kher, Uma ^a  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ERROR; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; OSTEOPOROSIS; THERAPY;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALENDRONATE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BONE DENSITY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OSTEOPOROSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS;

EID: 0033618854     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19990830)18:16<2177::AID-SIM181>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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