Modeling heaping in self-reported cigarette counts

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 3789-3804

  Wang, Hao ^a   Heitjan, Daniel F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Heaped data; Rounded data; Smoking cessation; Zero inflated negative binomial; Zero inflated poisson

Indexed keywords

AMFEBUTAMONE; PLACEBO;

ACCURACY; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PATIENT COUNSELING; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SELF REPORT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SMOKING CESSATION;

ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, SECOND-GENERATION; BAYES THEOREM; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BUPROPION; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION;

EID: 50449091206     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3281     Document Type: Article

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