Adjusting for partially missing baseline measurements in randomized trials

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 993-1007

  White, Ian R ^a   Thompson, Simon G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Analysis of covariance; Imputation; Missing covariate; Power; Randomized trials

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 15844423857     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1981     Document Type: Article

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