The sequential analysis of repeated binary responses: A score test for the case of three time points

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 2196-2214

  Sooriyarachchi, Marina Roshini ^a   Whitehead, John ^b   Whitehead, Anne ^b   Bolland, Kim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Binary data; Longitudinal data; Repeated observations; Score test; Sequential clinical trial

Indexed keywords

ELIPRODIL; PLACEBO;

ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFICACY; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CLINICAL TRIALS; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PIPERIDINES;

EID: 33745615831     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2339     Document Type: Article

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