Imputing physical health status scores missing owing to mortality: Results of a simulation comparing multiple techniques

Medical Care

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 61-71

  Revicki, Dennis A ^a,b   Gold, Karen ^b   Buckman, Dennis ^b   Chan, Kitty ^a,c   Kallich, Joel D ^d   Woolley, J Michael ^d  

^a UNITED BIOSOURCE CORPORATION   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d AMGEN INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Health related quality of life; Imputation methods; Methodological studies; Missing data; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MORTALITY; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BAYES THEOREM; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORTALITY; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS;

EID: 0035227368     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005650-200101000-00008     Document Type: Article

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