Estimating linear regression models in the presence of a censored independent variable

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 411-429

  Austin, Peter C ^a,b   Hoch, Jeffrey S ^c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ceiling effect; Censored independent variable; Censoring; Linear regression; Regression models

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTANTS AND COEFFICIENTS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INCOME; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; VARIANCE;

CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINEAR MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0842346673     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1601     Document Type: Article

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