On the potential for illogic with logically defined outcomes

Biostatistics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 800-804

  Li, Xianbin ^a   Caffo, Brian ^a   Scharfstein, Daniel ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Available case estimator; Complete case estimator; Hypertension; Maximum likelihood estimator; Missing data; Moment based estimator

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; LOGIC; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIOMETRY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LOGIC;

EID: 34848818788     PISSN: 14654644     EISSN: 14684357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxm006     Document Type: Article

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