An index of local sensitivity to nonignorable drop-out in longitudinal modelling

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 2129-2150

  Ma, Guoguang ^a   Troxel, Andrea B ^a   Heitjan, Daniel F ^a  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Covariance structure; Ignorability; Longitudinal data; Missing data; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

DESIPRAMINE; FLUTAMIDE; MILK PROTEIN; PLACEBO;

ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BARLEY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; DAIRY CATTLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONALITY; FOOD COMPOSITION; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUPIN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; ORCHIECTOMY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PROBABILITY; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH SUBJECT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, HORMONAL; CATTLE; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DESIPRAMINE; FEMALE; FLUTAMIDE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MILK PROTEINS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATIENT DROPOUTS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS;

EID: 21844459497     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2107     Document Type: Article

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