Use of multiple imputation in the epidemiologic literature

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 168, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 355-357

  Klebanoff, Mark A ^a   Cole, Stephen R ^b  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Expectation; Imputation; Missing data; Probability weighting

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PROBABILITY;

ALGORITHM; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICINE; PROBABILITY; REVIEW; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE;

ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC MEASUREMENTS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; PROBABILITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLE SIZE; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 49449091081     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwn071     Document Type: Review

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