A bias correction in testing treatment efficacy under informative dropout in clinical trials

Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 980-1000

  Kong, Fanhui ^a   Chen, Yeh Fong ^a   Jin, Kun ^a  

^a CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Grouping method; Linear mixed effects model; LOCF; MMRM; Non ignorable (informative) dropout; Treatment efficacy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; OUTCOME VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARIANCE;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATIENT DROPOUTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 75749132453     PISSN: 10543406     EISSN: 15205711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10543400903242753     Document Type: Article

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