Alternative methods for handling attrition: An illustration using data from the fast track evaluation

Evaluation Review

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 434-464

  Foster, E Michael ^a   Fang, Grace Y ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attrition; Imputation; Nonresponse; Selection models

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; REFUSAL TO PARTICIPATE; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PATIENT SELECTION; REFUSAL TO PARTICIPATE; RESEARCH DESIGN; SELECTION BIAS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 4644318168     PISSN: 0193841X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0193841X04264662     Document Type: Review

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