Nonignorable censoring in randomized clinical trials

Clinical Trials

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 488-496

  Zhang, Jiameng ^a,c   Heitjan, Daniel F ^b  

^a CENTER FOR BIOSTATISTICS IN AIDS RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EVALUATION; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL TIME;

CLINICAL TRIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 30444436876     PISSN: 17407745     EISSN: 17407753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/1740774505cn128oa     Document Type: Article

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