Modelling overdispersion in longitudinal count data in clinical trials with application to epileptic data

Contemporary Clinical Trials

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 547-554

  Fotouhi, Ali Reza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE FRASER VALLEY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayesian probability; Deviance; Initial conditions; Markov Chain Monte Carlo; Measurement error; Overdispersion; Random effects; Serial correlation; Simulation; Variance inflation factor

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; DATA ANALYSIS; EPILEPSY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; VARIANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BAYES THEOREM; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROBABILITY THEORY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 44049089019     PISSN: 15517144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2008.01.005     Document Type: Article

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