Abstract:
:In the comparison of two or more treatment groups to a control group, consider a study with non-decreasing repeated measurements of the same characteristic taken over a common set of time points for each subject. Based on the vector of possibly incomplete responses from each subject, this paper considers asymptotically distribution-free tests of the equality of the groups. I propose consistent point estimators of the overall treatment differences and I derive non-parametric simultaneous confidence regions for the treatment effects. An example using data from a bladder cancer study illustrates the proposed methods.
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Stat Medjournal_title
Statistics in medicineauthors
Davis CSdoi
10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19961215)15:23<2509::AID-Ssubject
Has Abstractpub_date
1996-12-15 00:00:00pages
2509-21issue
23eissn
0277-6715issn
1097-0258pii
10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19961215)15:23<2509::AID-Sjournal_volume
15pub_type
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