Analyzing longitudinal data in the presence of informative drop-out: The jmre1 command

Stata Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 226-251

  Pantazis, Nikos ^a   Touloumi, Giota ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Datajoint1; Informative censoring; Informative drop out; Jmre1 p; Jmrel; Longitudinal data; Missing data; St0190

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955028429     PISSN: 1536867X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1536867x1001000204     Document Type: Article

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