Sequential analysis of latent variables using mixed-effect latent variable models: Impact of non-informative and informative missing data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 27, 2007, Pages 4889-4904

  Sébille, Véronique ^a   Hardouin, Jean Benoit ^a   Mesbah, Mounir ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Clinical trials, missing data; Double triangular test; Latent variables; Mixed models; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONFERENCE PAPER; DATA ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL VARIABLE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RASCH ANALYSIS; SAMPLE SIZE; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SYSTEMATIC ERROR;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 35948943901     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2959     Document Type: Conference Paper

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