A Semiparametric Marginalized Model for Longitudinal Data with Informative Dropout

We propose a marginalized joint-modeling approach for marginal inference on the association between longitudinal responses and covariates when longitudinal measurements are subject to informative dropouts. The proposed model is motivated by the idea of linking longitudinal responses and dropout time...

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Main Authors: Mengling Liu, Wenbin Lu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2012-01-01
Series:Journal of Probability and Statistics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/734341