Modelling bounded health scores with censored skew-normal distributions

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 368-376

  Hutton, J L ^a   Stanghellini, E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bounded scores; Ceiling effect; Censoring; Distortion; Informative drop out; Skew normal distribution

Indexed keywords

ANKLE SPRAIN; ARTICLE; CENSORED SKEW NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; COMPRESSION BANDAGE; DATA ANALYSIS; HEALING; HUMAN; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PLASTER CAST; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SHOE; SPLINT; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

AGING; ANKLE INJURIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SPRAINS AND STRAINS;

EID: 78651243523     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4104     Document Type: Article

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