Out of sight, not out of mind: Strategies for handling missing data

American Journal of Health Behavior

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 83-92

  Buhi, Eric R ^a   Goodson, Patricia ^b   Neilands, Torsten B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis; FIML; Health behavior research; Imputation; MDTs; Missing data

Indexed keywords

EID: 38749111405     PISSN: 10873244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5993/AJHB.32.1.8     Document Type: Article

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