Handling missing data: A commonly encountered problem in quantitative research

Clinical Nurse Specialist

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 273-276

  Duffy, Mary E ^a,b  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b 433 Cushing Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; NURSING RESEARCH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SAMPLE SIZE; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NURSING RESEARCH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 33845477049     PISSN: 08876274     EISSN: 15389782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002800-200611000-00005     Document Type: Article

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