Use of OSWALD for analyzing longitudinal data with informative dropout |
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Authors: | Begley Amy E Tang Gong Mazumdar Sati Houck Patricia R Scott John Mulsant Benoit H Reynolds Charles F |
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Affiliation: | Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. begleyae@upmc.edu |
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Abstract: | OSWALD (Object-oriented Software for the Analysis of Longitudinal Data) is flexible and powerful software written for S-PLUS for the analysis of longitudinal data with dropout for which there is little other software available in the public domain. The implementation of OSWALD is described through analysis of a psychiatric clinical trial that compares antidepressant effects in an elderly depressed sample and a simulation study. In the simulation study, three different dropout mechanisms: completely random dropout (CRD), random dropout (RD) and informative dropout (ID), are considered and the results from using OSWALD are compared across mechanisms. The parameter estimates for ID-simulated data show less bias with OSWALD under the ID missing data assumption than under the CRD or RD assumptions. Under an ID mechanism, OSWALD does not provide standard error estimates. We supplement OSWALD with a bootstrap procedure to derive the standard errors. This report illustrates the usage of OSWALD for analyzing longitudinal data with dropouts and how to draw appropriate conclusions based on the analytic results under different assumptions regarding the dropout mechanism. |
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