The effect of dropout on the efficiency of D-optimal designs of linear mixed models

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 2601-2617

  Ortega Azurduy, Shirley A ^a   Tan, F E S ^a   Berger, M P F ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

D optimality; Dropout; Linear mixed models; Relative efficiency

Indexed keywords

DESIPRAMINE; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL MODEL; VARIANCE;

ALGORITHMS; EFFICIENCY; LINEAR MODELS; PATIENT DROPOUTS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 47249145716     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3108     Document Type: Article

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