Likelihood based frequentist inference when data are missing at random

Statistical Science

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 236-247

  Kenward, M G ^a   Molenberghs, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Dropout; Expected information matrix; Likelihood function; Likelihood ratio; Longitudinal data; Observed information matrix; Sequential methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345734935     PISSN: 08834237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/ss/1028905886     Document Type: Article

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