Statistics in medicine.
Publisher:
Wiley,
Frequency: Twenty four no. a year
Country: England
Language: English
Start Year:1982 -
ISSN:
0277-6715 (Print)
1097-0258 (Electronic)
0277-6715 (Linking)
1097-0258 (Electronic)
0277-6715 (Linking)
Impact Factor
2
2022
| NLM ID: | 8215016 |
| (DNLM): | S40380000(s) |
| (OCoLC): | 07625714 |
| Coden: | SMEDDA |
| Classification: | W1 ST319N |
A two-component nonlinear mixed effects model for longitudinal data, with application to gastric emptying studies. Gastric emptying studies are of great interest in human and veterinary medical research to evaluate effects of medications or diets for promoting gastrointestinal motility and to examine unintended side-effects of new or existing medications, diets, or procedures. Summarizing gastric emptying data is important to allow easier comparison between treatments or groups of subjects and comparisons of results among studies. The standard method for assessing gastric emptying is by using scintigraphy and summarizing the nonlinear emptying of the radioisotope. A popular model for fitting gastric emptyi...