Analysis of data from a controlled repeated measurements design with baseline-dependent dropouts

Methodology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 58-66

  Overall, John E ^a,c   Tonidandel, Scott ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b DAVIDSON COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Dropouts; Equal slopes hypothesis; General linear mixed model; Repeated measurements; Summary statistics; Two stage analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 63649119856     PISSN: 16141881     EISSN: 16142241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1614-2241.3.2.58     Document Type: Article

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