A Bayesian sensitivity model for intention-to-treat analysis on binary outcomes with dropouts

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 572-585

  Kaciroti, Niko A ^a   Schork, M Anthony ^a   Raghunathan, Trivellore ^a   Julius, Stevo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Binary outcomes; Missing data; Randomized controlled trials; Sensitivity analysis; TROPHYtrial

Indexed keywords

CANDESARTAN; PLACEBO; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; BENZIMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; TETRAZOLE DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EVALUATION RESEARCH; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PARAMETRIC TEST; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESEARCH SUBJECT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; BLOOD PRESSURE; DRUG EFFECT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT; PROBABILITY; RISK; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BAYES THEOREM; BENZIMIDAZOLES; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MARKOV CHAINS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT DROPOUTS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TETRAZOLES;

EID: 63149124918     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3494     Document Type: Article

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