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Application of Beta Regression to Analyze Ischemic Stroke Volume in NINDS rt-PA Clinical Trials
Author(s) -
Christopher J. Swearingen,
Barbara C. Tilley,
Robert J. Adams,
Zoran Rumboldt,
Joyce S. Nicholas,
Dipankar Bandyopadhyay,
Robert F. Woolson
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
neuroepidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.217
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1423-0208
pISSN - 0251-5350
DOI - 10.1159/000330375
Subject(s) - medicine , stroke (engine) , lesion , regression analysis , linear regression , covariate , regression , odds ratio , clinical trial , cardiology , statistics , surgery , mathematics , mechanical engineering , engineering
Ischemic stroke lesion volumes have proven difficult to analyze due to the extremely skewed shape of their underlying distribution. We introduce an extension of generalized linear models, beta regression, as a possible method of modeling extremely skewed distributions as evidenced in ischemic stroke lesion volumes.

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