Analysis of longitudinal studies with death and drop-out: A case study

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 2215-2226

  Dufouil, Carole ^a   Brayne, Carol ^b   Clayton, David ^c  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b Dept of Epidemiol/Community Health ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cohort studies; Inverse probability weighting; Marginal models; Missing at random; Missing data mechanism; Non ignorable missingness

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LIFE TABLE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MORTALITY; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COGNITION DISORDERS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATIENT DROPOUTS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 3242768440     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1821     Document Type: Article

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