Biased and unbiased estimation in longitudinal studies with informative visit processes

Biometrics

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1315-1324

  McCulloch, Charles E ^a   Neuhaus, John M ^a   Olin, Rebecca L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Missing not at random; Mixed effects model; Multiplicative link

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL RESEARCH;

BIAS; BIASED ESTIMATION; CLINICAL DATABASE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MISSING NOT AT RANDOM; MIXED EFFECTS MODELS; MULTIPLICATIVE LINK; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOM EFFECTS; UNBIASED ESTIMATION;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

BIOMETRY; DATA INTERPRETATION; DATABASE; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; MODEL TEST;

AMBULATORY CARE; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; STATISTICAL BIAS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AMBULATORY CARE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 84961266539     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/biom.12501     Document Type: Article

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