Bias reduction with an adjustment for participants' intent to dropout of a randomized controlled clinical trial

Clinical Trials

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 540-547

  Leon, Andrew C ^a   Demirtas, Hakan ^b   Hedeker, Donald ^b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADJUSTMENT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COVARIANCE; DATA ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF CONCEPT; SIMULATION; TIME;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; INTENTION; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATIENT DROPOUTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 36549073578     PISSN: 17407745     EISSN: 17407753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1740774507083871     Document Type: Article

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