Effect modification in a randomized trial under non-ignorable non-compliance: An application to the alpha-tocopherol beta-carotene study

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 115-133

  Korhonen, Pasi ^a,b   Palmgren, Juni ^c  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Accelerated failure time model; Alpha tocopherol beta carotene study; Clinical trial; Diagnostics; Estimating equations; Non ignorable non compliance; Partial likelihood; Semiparametric inference

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036429806     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9876.04660     Document Type: Article

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