A review of RCTs in four medical journals to assess the use of imputation to overcome missing data in quality of life outcomes

Trials

Volumn 9, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Fielding, Shona ^a   Maclennan, Graeme ^b   Cook, Jonathan A ^b   Ramsay, Craig R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; DATA EXTRACTION; IMPUTATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 51049094426     PISSN: 17456215     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-9-51     Document Type: Review

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