The impact of loss to follow-up on hypothesis tests of the treatment effect for several statistical methods in substance abuse clinical trials

Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 54-63

  Hedden, Sarra L ^a,b,c   Woolson, Robert F ^a   Carter, Rickey E ^a   Palesch, Yuko ^a   Upadhyaya, Himanshu P ^b   Malcolm, Robert J ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypothesis tests; Longitudinal data; Loss to follow up; Substance abuse clinical trial; Treatment effect

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; HYPOTHESIS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; THERAPY EFFECT;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATIENT DROPOUTS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67349182589     PISSN: 07405472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsat.2008.09.011     Document Type: Article

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