Analysis of a binary composite endpoint with missing data in components

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 26, 2007, Pages 4703-4718

  Quan, Hui ^a   Zhang, Daowen ^b   Zhang, Ji ^a   Devlamynck, Laure ^a  

^a SANOFI   (France)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

EM algorithm; Event rate; Maximum likelihood estimate; Missing at random

Indexed keywords

ENOXAPARIN; FONDAPARINUX;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEG PHLEBOGRAPHY; LEG THROMBOSIS; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

ALGORITHMS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ENDPOINT DETERMINATION; HUMANS; LEG; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; ORTHOPEDICS; UNITED STATES; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 35648932939     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2893     Document Type: Article

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