Dropouts in the AB/BA crossover design

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 1675-1687

  Ho, Weang Kee ^a   Matthews, John N S ^a   Henderson, Robin ^a   Farewell, Daniel ^b   Rodgers, Lauren R ^c  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c FORENSIC SCIENCE SERVICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crossover design; Dropouts; Intention to treat; Inverse probability weighting; Missing data

Indexed keywords

DIHYDROCODEINE; NABILONE;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DATA PROCESSING; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEURALGIA; PATIENT DROPOUTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84862849125     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4497     Document Type: Article

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