A new nonparametric approach for baseline covariate adjustment for two-group comparative studies

Biometrics

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1110-1116

  Schacht, Alexander ^a   Bogaerts, Kris ^b   Bluhmki, Erich ^c   Lesaffre, Emmanuel ^b,d  

^a LILLY DEUTSCHLAND GMBH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM PHARMA GMBH AND CO KG   (Germany)

^d ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ANCOVA; Covariate adjustment; Nonparametric analysis; Ordered categorical; Ordinal; Relative effect

Indexed keywords

STATISTICAL TESTS;

ANCOVA; COVARIATE ADJUSTMENT; COVARIATES; NON-PARAMETRIC ANALYSIS; NONPARAMETRIC APPROACHES; ORDERED CATEGORICAL; ORDINAL; RELATIVE EFFECTS; TEST STATISTICS; TREATMENT EFFECTS;

STATISTICS;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DISEASE TREATMENT; ERROR ANALYSIS; ORDINATION; PROBABILITY; SAMPLING;

ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PROBABILITY; RATING SCALE;

EID: 56049093025     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2008.00994.x     Document Type: Article

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