A comparison of imputation techniques for handling missing predictor values in a risk model with a binary outcome

Statistical Methods in Medical Research

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 277-298

  Ambler, Gareth ^a   Omar, Rumana Z ^a   Royston, Patrick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC CLINICAL TRIALS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; HEART SURGERY; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOTDECKING; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE IMPUTATION CHAINED EQUATIONS; MULTIPLE IMPUTATION METHOD; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; RELIABILITY; SIMULATION; SINGLE IMPUTATION METHOD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AGED; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; THORACIC SURGERY;

EID: 34347372013     PISSN: 09622802     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0962280206074466     Document Type: Article

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