A tutorial on principal stratification-based sensitivity analysis: Application to smoking cessation studies

Clinical Trials

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 286-298

  Egleston, Brian L ^a   Cropsey, Karen L ^b   Lazev, Amy B ^a   Heckman, Carolyn J ^a  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE PATCH;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; NICOTINE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISONER; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SMOKING CESSATION; SMOKING CESSATION PROGRAM; SMOKING HABIT; STRATIFIED SAMPLE; TREATMENT DURATION; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; PRISONERS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMOKING CESSATION; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952755025     PISSN: 17407745     EISSN: 17407753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1740774510367811     Document Type: Article

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