Nonrandom missingness in categorical data: Strengths and limitations

American Statistician

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 110-118

  Molenberghs, Geert ^a   Goetghebeur, Els J T ^b   Lipsitz, Stuart R ^c,d   Kenward, Michael G ^e  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Sciences ^*  (Belgium)

^c DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contingency tables; Generalized linear models; Longitudinal data; Maximum likelihood estimation; Missing values; Nonrandom missingness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033450529     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.1999.10474442     Document Type: Article

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