Tutorial in biostatistics. Handling drop-out in longitudinal studies

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1455-1497

  Hogan, Joseph W ^a   Roy, Jason ^b   Korkontzelou, Christina ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Inverse probability weigthing; Missing data; Pattern mixture model; Repeated measures; Semiparametric regression; Smoking cessation

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; CD4 ANTIGEN;

BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BIOSTATISTICS; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COHORT ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EXERCISE; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; PARAMETRIC TEST; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SMOKING CESSATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; BIOMETRY; PATIENT; STATISTICS;

BIOMETRY; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATIENT DROPOUTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SMOKING CESSATION;

EID: 3843075419     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1728     Document Type: Review

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