A reanalysis of a longitudinal scleroderma clinical trial using non-ignorable missingness models

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 137, Issue 12 SPEC. ISS., 2007, Pages 3848-3858

  Boscardin, W John ^a   Yan, Xiaohong ^a   Wong, Weng Kee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Gibbs sampler; Log score criterion; Selection models

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547895453     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2007.04.005     Document Type: Article

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