Two techniques for investigating interactions between treatment and continuous covariates in clinical trials

Stata Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 230-251

  Royston, Patrick ^a   Sauerbrei, Willi ^b  

^a MRC CLINICAL TRIALS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clinical trials; Continuous covariates; Fractional polynomials; Mfpi; Mfpi plot; Stepp plot; Stepp tail; Stepp window; StO164; Subpopulation treatment effect pattern plot; Treatment covariate interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 68949083261     PISSN: 1536867X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1536867x0900900204     Document Type: Article

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