Conditional change model
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The conditional change model in statistics
Statistics
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 is the analytic procedure in which change scores are regressed
Linear regression
In statistics, linear regression is an approach to modeling the relationship between a scalar variable y and one or more explanatory variables denoted X. The case of one explanatory variable is called simple regression...

 on baseline
Baseline
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 values, together with the explanatory variables of interest (often including an indicator of a treatment groups
Treatment groups
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). The method has some substantial advantages over the usual two-sample t-test recommended in textbook
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