Multiple imputation for correcting verification bias

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 3769-3786

  Harel, Ofer ^a   Zhou, Xiao Hua ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b VA PUGET SOUND HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian methods; Missing data; Multiple imputations; Software; Verification bias

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIMULATION; SYSTEMATIC ERROR;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSILLUMINATION;

EID: 33750847223     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2494     Document Type: Article

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