Formal and informal model selection with incomplete data

Statistical Science

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 201-218

  Verbeke, Geert ^a   Molenberghs, Geert ^b   Beunckens, Caroline ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Interval of ignorance; Linear mixed model; Missing at random; Missing not at random; Multivariate normal; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 50849094901     PISSN: 08834237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/07-STS253     Document Type: Article

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