Type I error inflation in the presence of a ceiling effect

American Statistician

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 97-104

  Austin, Peter C ^a   Brunner, Lawrence J ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Censored independent variable; Health status; Monte Carlo simulations; Regression models

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037936664     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/0003130031450     Document Type: Article

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