A primer on the use of modern missing-data methods in psychosomatic medicine research

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 427-436

  Enders, Craig K ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attrition; Direct maximum likelihood; Full information maximum likelihood; Maximum likelihood; Missing data; Multiple imputation

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL RESEARCH; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOMATICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; RESEARCH; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PSYCHOSOMATIC MEDICINE; RESEARCH; STATISTICS;

EID: 33746068696     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.psy.0000221275.75056.d8     Document Type: Article

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