Accelerated longitudinal designs: An overview of modelling, power, costs and handling missing data

Statistical Methods in Medical Research

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 374-398

  Galbraith, Sally ^a   Bowden, Jack ^b   Mander, Adrian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b MRC BIOSTATISTICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

accelerated longitudinal design; cohort effect; dropout; mixed model

Indexed keywords

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; SLOPE FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; AGE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; PATIENT DROPOUT; PATIENT SELECTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; STATISTICAL BIAS; TIME FACTOR; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGE FACTORS; BIAS; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PATIENT DROPOUTS; PATIENT SELECTION; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; TIME FACTORS; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 85008659738     PISSN: 09622802     EISSN: 14770334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0962280214547150     Document Type: Article

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