Analysis of longitudinal Patient-Reported Outcomes with informative and non-informative dropout: Comparison of CTT and Rasch-based methods

International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Statistics

Volumn 24, Issue SUPPL. I-11A, 2011, Pages 107-124

  Blanchin, Myriam ^a   Hardouin, Jean Benoit ^a   Le Neel, Tanguy ^a   Kubis, Gildas ^a   Sébille, Véronique ^a  

^a Universite de Nantes   (France)

Author keywords

Classical test theory; Dropout; Informative missing data; Longitudinal data; Rasch model

Indexed keywords

CLASSICAL TESTS; DROPOUT; LONGITUDINAL DATA; MISSING DATA; RASCH MODEL;

EID: 79957843669     PISSN: 09731377     EISSN: 09737545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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