On the joint analysis of longitudinal responses and early discontinuation in randomized trials

Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 425-440

  Vandenhende, François ^a,b   Lambert, Philippe ^b  

^a Eli Lilly Benelux   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Continuous or ordinal data; Copula; Drop out; Likelihood; Repeated measures

Indexed keywords

5 (4 FLUOROBENZAMIDO) 3 (1 METHYL 4 PIPERIDINYL) 1H INDOLE FUMARATE; NEW DRUG;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; HEART RATE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MEASUREMENT; MIGRAINE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RAT; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFECT; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICS; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATIENT DROPOUTS; PROBABILITY THEORY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RATS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 0036450387     PISSN: 10543406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/BIP-120016228     Document Type: Article

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