Identification of subgroups with differential treatment effects for longitudinal and multiresponse variables

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 26, 2016, Pages 4837-4855

  Loh, Wei Yin ^a   Fu, Haoda ^b   Man, Michael ^b   Champion, Victoria ^c   Yu, Menggang ^d  

^a University of Wisconsin   (United States)

^b ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

bootstrap; precision medicine; randomized trial; regression tree; unbiased

Indexed keywords

GLICLAZIDE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; PIOGLITAZONE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BOOTSTRAPPING; BREAST CANCER; CALIBRATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA ANALYSIS; DIABETIC DIET; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LONGITUDINAL VARIABLE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL VARIABLE; MAXIMUM TOLERATED DOSE; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); MULTIRESPONSE VARIABLE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REGRESSION TREE ALGORITHM; SIMULATION; TREATMENT DURATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ALGORITHMS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84991503912     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.7020     Document Type: Article

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