Statistical analysis of longitudinal psychiatric data with dropouts

Journal of Psychiatric Research

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1032-1041

  Mazumdar, Sati ^a,b   Tang, Gong ^a   Houck, Patricia R ^b   Dew, Mary Amanda ^b   Begley, Amy E ^b   Scott, John ^a   Mulsant, Benoit H ^b,c   Reynolds III, Charles F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Inferential methods; Nonrandom missing; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PSYCHIATRY; RANDOMIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS;

ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DEPRESSION; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MENTAL DISORDERS; NORTRIPTYLINE; PAROXETINE; PATIENT DROPOUTS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 34548173487     PISSN: 00223956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2006.09.007     Document Type: Article

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