A Method-of-Moments Estimation Procedure for Categorical Quality-of-Life Data with Nonignorable Missingness

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 94, Issue 448, 1999, Pages 1025-1034

  Bonetti, Marco ^a   Cole, Bernard F ^b   Gelber, Richard D ^c  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Identifiability; Multinomial model; Nonignorable missingness; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

EID: 0442309561     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1999.10473855     Document Type: Article

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