Anavex Life Sciences Corp (AVXL)

[MycroftHolmes]

Re: drop out handling

One assumes that dropouts are handled in an "average neutral" way.

1) The simplest way one can do this is by carrying forward the overall average scores thus it has no impact on mean (but would be removed for the mode for distribution).

2) The other way is to carry forward the average scores of similar participants (pre-determined)

I would bet very heavily on option 1) as n=32 just seems too small a population to divide by profile type for option 2)

Just my 2 cents

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