A comparison of mixed-effects quantile stratification propensity adjustment strategies for longitudinal treatment effectiveness analyses of continuous outcomes

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 2650-2665

  Leon, Andrew C ^a   Hedeker, Donald ^b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Antidepressant; Effectiveness; Longitudinal; Mixed effects model; Propensity adjustment

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG EFFICACY; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; HEALTH STATISTICS; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; RISK REDUCTION; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DEPRESSION; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34249739008     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2732     Document Type: Article

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