

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
E-ISSN: 1539-1612|14|3|252-261
ISSN: 1539-1604
Source: PHARMACEUTICAL STATISTICS: THE JOURNAL OF APPLIED STATISTICS IN THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY, Vol.14, Iss.3, 2015-05, pp. : 252-261
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Abstract
Comparison of groups in longitudinal studies is often conducted using the area under the outcome versus time curve. However, outcomes may be subject to censoring due to a limit of detection and specific methods that take informative missingness into account need to be applied. In this article, we present a unified model‐based method that accounts for both the within‐subject variability in the estimation of the area under the curve as well as the missingness mechanism in the event of censoring. Simulation results demonstrate that our proposed method has a significant advantage over traditionally implemented methods with regards to its inferential properties. A working example from an AIDS study is presented to demonstrate the applicability of our approach. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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