Randomized clinical trials with a pre- and a post-treatment measurement: Repeated measures versus ANCOVA models

Contemporary Clinical Trials

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 713-719

  Winkens, Bjorn ^a   van Breukelen, Gerard J P ^a   Schouten, Hubert J A ^a   Berger, Martijn P F ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Analysis of covariance; Generalized least squares; Kenward and Roger's adjustment; Repeated measures; Restricted maximum likelihood; Treatment effect estimation

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DATA ANALYSIS; FAT INTAKE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NETHERLANDS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34848905456     PISSN: 15517144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2007.04.002     Document Type: Article

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