Evaluating assumptions of weighting class methods for partial response using a selection model

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 4569-4580

  Smith, Philip J ^a   Marsh, Lawrence C ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Missing values; Partial response; Response propensity; Selection bias; Weighting class

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RANDOM SAMPLE; RESPONSE VARIABLE; SAMPLING ERROR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; WEIGHING CLASS METHOD;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; INFANT; LINEAR MODELS; MEDICAL RECORDS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SAMPLING STUDIES; SELECTION BIAS; VACCINATION;

EID: 53349102223     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3304     Document Type: Article

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