Consequences of misspecifying the number of latent treatment attendance classes in modeling group membership turnover within ecologically valid behavioral treatment trials

Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 396-409

  Morgan Lopez, Antonio A ^a   Fals Stewart, William ^b  

^a RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Data analysis; Open enrollment; Treatment groups

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GROUP THERAPY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT DROPOUTS; PSYCHOTHERAPY, GROUP; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 54249163459     PISSN: 07405472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsat.2008.03.002     Document Type: Article

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