Adjusting for Nonignorable Drop-Out Using Semiparametric Nonresponse Models

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 94, Issue 448, 1999, Pages 1096-1120

  Scharfstein, Daniel O ^a   Rotnitzky, Andrea ^b   Robins, James M ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Augmented inverse probability of censoring weighted estimators; Cox proportional hazards model; Identification; Missing data; Noncompliance; Nonparametric methods; Randomized trials; Sensitivity analysis; Time dependent covariates

Indexed keywords

EID: 0442278084     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1999.10473862     Document Type: Article

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