Robustness of a multivariate normal approximation for imputation of incomplete binary data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1368-1382

  Bernaards, Coen A ^a   Belin, Thomas R ^b   Schafer, Joseph L ^c  

^a GENENTECH INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Coverage; Missing data; Multiple imputation; Rounding

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CALCULATION; CARROT; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PROBABILITY; SCHOOL CHILD; SIMULATION; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CALIFORNIA; CHILD; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK-TAKING;

EID: 33847711413     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2619     Document Type: Article

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