Pattern recognition of longitudinal trial data with nonignorable missingness:

International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 491-513

  Fang, Hua ^a   Espy, Kimberly Andrews ^a   Rizzo, Maria L ^b   Stopp, Christian ^a   Wiebe, Sandra A ^a   Stroup, Walter W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fuzzy clustering; Growth pattern recognition; Intermittent missing; Nonmissing at random; Parallel mixture model

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350267860     PISSN: 02196220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219622009003508     Document Type: Article

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