Title | Statistical Methods for Quality of Life Studies [electronic resource] : Design, Measurements and Analysis / edited by Mounir Mesbah, Bernard F. Cole, Mei-Ling Ting Lee |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2002 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3625-0 |
Descript | XVI, 364 p. online resource |
1: Measurement, Scale Development, and Study Design -- Regulatory Aspects of Quality of Life -- Biases in the Retrospective Calculation of Reliability and Responsiveness from Longitudinal Studies -- Application of the Multiattribute Utility Theory to the Development of a Preference based Health-Related Quality of Life Instrument -- Strategy and Methodology for Choice of Items in Psychometric Measurement: Designing a Quality of Life Instrument for Hip and Knee Osteoarthritis -- Conception, Development and Validation of Instruments for Quality of Life Assessment: An Overview -- Methodological Issues in the Analysis of Quality of Life Data in Clinical Trials: Illustrations from the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP) Breast Cancer Prevention Trial -- Disease-Specific Versus Generic Measurement of Health-Related Quality of Life in Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Studies: an Inpatient Investigation of the SF-36 and Four Disease-Specific Instruments -- 2: Analysis and Interpretation of Multiple Endpoints -- Analyzing Longitudinal Health-Related Quality of Life Data: Missing Data and Imputation Methods -- Comparison of Treatments with Multiple Outcomes -- The Use of Soft Endpoints in Clinical Trials: The Search for Clinical Significance -- 3: Item Response Theory and Rasch Models -- Parametric and Nonparametric Item Response Theory Models in Health Related Quality of Life Measurement -- Questionnaire Reliability Under the Rasch Model -- Item Response Theory (IRT): Applications in Quality of Life Measurement, Analysis and Interpretation -- Graphical Rasch Models -- 4: Joint Analysis of Quality of Life and Survival -- Semi-Markov Models for Quality of Life Data with Censoring -- A Model Relating Quality of Life to Latent Health Status and Survival -- Applying Survival Data Methodology to Analyze Longitudinal Quality of Life Data -- Latent Class Models to Describe Changes Over Time: A Case Study -- 5: Quality-Adjusted Survival Analysis and Related Methods -- Prevalence Analysis of Recurrent and Transient Health States in Quality of Life Studies -- Measures of Quality Adjusted Life and Quality of Life Deficiency: Statistical Perspectives -- Quality-Adjusted Survival Analysis in Cancer Clinical Trials -- 6: Methods for Informatively Missing Longitudinal quality-of-llfe data -- Handling of Missing Data -- Guidelines For Administration of Self-Reported Health-Related Quality of Questionnaires: How to Minimize Avoidable Missing Data? -- Joint Analysis of Survival and Nonignorable Missing Longitudinal Quality-of-Life Data -- Multiple Imputation for Non-Random Missing Data in Longitudinal Studies of Health-Related Quality of Life -- Strategies to Fit Pattern-Mixture Models -- Analysis of Longitudinal Quality of Life Data with Informative Dropout