Sensitivity analysis for the estimation of rates of change with non-ignorable drop-out: An application to a randomized clinical trial of the vitamin D3

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 811-827

  Matsuyama, Yutaka ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Informative censoring; Randomized trials; Rates of change; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

COLECALCIFEROL; PARATHYROID HORMONE;

CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERCALCEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARATHYROID HORMONE RELEASE; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; SECONDARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CALCIUM; CHOLECALCIFEROL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIALYSIS; HUMANS; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PARATHYROID HORMONE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0037445361     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1367     Document Type: Review

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