Handling missing items in quality of life studies

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1371-1383

  Chavance, M ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Incomplete observations; Missing at random; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA REDUCTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUALITY CONTROL; RISKS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

INCOMPLETE OBSERVATIONS; LIFE STUDIES; MISSING AT RANDOM (MAR); QUALITY OF LIFE (QOL);

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 2342450597     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/STA-120030155     Document Type: Article

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