A comparison of procedures to correct for base-line differences in the analysis of continuous longitudinal data: A case-study

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 93-101

  Verbeke, G ^a   Fieuws, S ^a   Lesaffre, E ^a   Kato, B S ^b   Foreman, M D ^c   Broos, P L O ^a   Milisen, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Base line correction; Linear mixed model; Longitudinal data; Longitudinal trends

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645084238     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: 14679876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2005.00531.x     Document Type: Article

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