Analyzing longitudinal count data from adaptive clinical trials: A weighted generalized quasi-likelihood approach

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 76, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1079-1093

  Sutradhar, Brajendra C ^a   Jowaheer, Vandna ^b  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAURITIUS   (Mauritius)

Author keywords

Adaptive randomization; Clinical trials; Consistency; Design weights; Efficiency; Generalized linear model; Longitudinal count responses

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751577998     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: 15635163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10629360600569196     Document Type: Article

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