Estimating treatment effects in randomized clinical trials in the presence of non-compliance

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 14, 2000, Pages 1849-1864

  Nagelkerke, Nico ^a,b,c,d   Fidler, Vaclav ^e   Bernsen, Roos ^b   Borgdorff, Martien ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^d KNCV TUBERCULOSIS FOUNDATION   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTICHOLESTEREMIC AGENTS; CLOFIBRATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PLACEBOS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT REFUSAL; VITAMIN A;

EID: 0034734141     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0258(20000730)19:14<1849::AID-SIM506>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Review

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