Analysis of longitudinal data with intermittent missing values using the stochastic EM algorithm

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2702-2714

  Gad, Ahmed M ^a   Ahmed, Abeer S ^b  

^a Cairo University   (Egypt)

^b National Center for Sociological and Criminological Research Cairo   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Nonrandom intermittent missing; Quality of life; Repeated measures; Standard errors; The stochastic EM algorithm

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY;

BREAST CANCER; NONRANDOM INTERMITTENT MISSING; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPEATED MEASURES; STANDARD ERRORS; THE STOCHASTIC EM ALGORITHM;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

EID: 33646076443     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2005.04.006     Document Type: Article

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