Strategy for Intention to Treat Analysis in Randomised Trials with Missing Outcome Data

Overview

Journal BMJ

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2011 Feb 9

PMID 21300711

Citations 375

Authors

Ian R White

Nicholas J Horton

James Carpenter

Stuart J Pocock

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