Impact of missing data due to drop-outs on estimators for rates of change in longitudinal studies: A simulation study

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 24, 2001, Pages 3715-3728

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

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

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AVERAGE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MARKER; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; GREECE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DROPOUTS; STATISTICS;

EID: 0035977428     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1114     Document Type: Article

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