Adjusting for observable selection bias in block randomized trials

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1537-1546

  Ivanova, Anastasia ^a   Barrier Jr , Robert C ^b   Berger, Vance W ^c,d  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b DUKE CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Randomized block design; Randomized clinical trials; Selection bias

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COVARIANCE; DRUG RESEARCH; HYPOTHESIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; METHODOLOGY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SELECTION BIAS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 19144368612     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2058     Document Type: Article

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