A multiple-imputation analysis of a case-control study of the risk of primary cardiac arrest among pharmacologicallytreated hypertensives

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 335-352

  Raghunathan, Trivellore E ^a   Siscovick, David S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gibbs sampling; Logistic regression; Non ignorable mechanism; Odds ratios; Olkin Tate model; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038973680     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2986092     Document Type: Article

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