Imputing missing repeated measures data: How should we proceed?

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 575-582

  Elliott, Peter ^a   Hawthorne, Graeme ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Closest match; Imputation; Last value carried forward; Listwise deletion; Missing data; Regression; Standardized score imputation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL HEALTH; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALCOHOLISM; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 27744582848     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1614.2005.01629.x     Document Type: Article

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