Ignorability and bias in clincial trials

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 17-18, 1999, Pages 2421-2434

  Heitjan, Daniel F ^a  

^a Columbia Univ Sch of Public Health ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; DATA ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THEORY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFECT; PATIENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICS; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BLOOD PRESSURE; CLINICAL TRIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; PATIENT DROPOUTS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 0033618910     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0258(19990915/30)18:17/18<2421::aid-sim266>3.0.co;2-r     Document Type: Conference Paper

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