Multivariate mann-whitney estimators for the comparison of two treatments in a three-period crossover study with randomly missing data

Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 720-744

  Kawaguchi, Atsushi ^a,b   Koch, Gary G ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b KURUME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bradley Terry model; Randomization based nonparametric covariance adjustment; Rank measures of association for pairwise comparisons; Strictly ordinal response variable; U statistics; Weighted least squares estimation

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BRADLEY TERRY MODEL; CLINICAL STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; COVARIANCE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; POWER ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RANK SUM TEST; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT DURATION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 77952918680     PISSN: 10543406     EISSN: 15205711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10543401003618108     Document Type: Article

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