Exact and approximate unconditional confidence intervals for proportion difference in the presence of incomplete data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 625-641

  Tang, Man Lai ^a   Ling, Man Ho ^a   Tian, Guo Liang ^b,c  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND GREENEBAUM CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Asymptotic inference; Incomplete data; Paired binary data; Test based confidence interval; Unconditional exact inference

Indexed keywords

AURANOFIN; PLACEBO;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MENINGITIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STUDENT T TEST; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; BIOMETRY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; INCIDENCE; METHODOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BIOMETRY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MENINGITIS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 63149126942     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3490     Document Type: Article

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