Covariate adjustment for two-sample treatment comparisons in randomized clinical trials: A principled yet flexible approach

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 4658-4677

  Tsiatis, Anastasios A ^a   Davidian, Marie ^a   Zhang, Min ^a   Lu, Xiaomin ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Baseline variables; Clinical trials; Covariate adjustment; Efficiency; Semiparametric theory; Variable selection

Indexed keywords

DIDANOSINE; ZALCITABINE; ZIDOVUDINE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CLINICAL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; COVARIANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; MATHEMATICAL VARIABLE; MONOTHERAPY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ALGORITHMS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SAMPLING STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 53849093809     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3113     Document Type: Article

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