Mann-Whitney test with adjustments to pretreatment variables for missing values and observational study

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 81-102

  Chen, Song Xi ^a,b   Qin, Jing ^c   Tang, Cheng Yong ^d,e  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Dimension reduction; Kernel smoothing; Mann Whitney statistic; Missing outcomes; Observational studies; Selection bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871378055     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: 14679868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9868.2012.01036.x     Document Type: Article

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