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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">JDS</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Journal of Data Science</journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="epub">1680-743X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">1680-743X</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>SOSRUC</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">140208</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.6339/JDS.201604_14(2).0008</article-id>
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          <subject>Research Article</subject>
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        <article-title>A Correlated Binary Model for Ignorable Missing Data: Application to Rheumatoid Arthritis Clinical Data</article-title>
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      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Erebholo</surname>
            <given-names>Francis</given-names>
          </name>
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        <aff id="j_JDS_aff_000">Department of Mathematics, Hampton University</aff>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Apprey</surname>
            <given-names>Victor</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_JDS_aff_001"/>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_JDS_aff_001">National Human Genome Center, Howard University
4 Department of Community and Family Medicine, Howard Uni</aff>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Bezandry</surname>
            <given-names>Paul</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_JDS_aff_002"/>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_JDS_aff_002">Department of Mathematics, Howard University</aff>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Kwagyan</surname>
            <given-names>John</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_JDS_aff_003"/>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_JDS_aff_003">National Human Genome Center, Howard University; 
Department of Community and Family Medicine, Howard University</aff>
      </contrib-group>
      <volume>14</volume>
      <issue>2</issue>
      <fpage>365</fpage>
      <lpage>382</lpage>
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        <p>Abstract: Incomplete data are common phenomenon in research that adopts the longitudinal design approach. If incomplete observations are present in the longitudinal data structure, ignoring it could lead to bias in statistical inference and interpretation. We adopt the disposition model and extend it to the analysis of longitudinal binary outcomes in the presence of monotone incomplete data. The response variable is modeled using a conditional logistic regression model. The nonresponse mechanism is assumed ignorable and developed as a combination of Markov’s transition and logistic regression model. MLE method is used for parameter estimation. Application of our approach to rheumatoid arthritis clinical trials is presented.</p>
      </abstract>
      <kwd-group>
        <label>Keywords</label>
        <kwd>Binary data</kwd>
        <kwd>disposition model</kwd>
        <kwd>dropout mechanism</kwd>
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