A semi-parametric shared parameter model to handle nonmonotone nonignorable missingness

Biometrics

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 81-87

  Tsonaka, Roula ^a   Verbeke, Geert ^a   Lesaffre, Emmanuel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Missing data; Nonignorable nonresponse; Standard errors; Vertex exchange method

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RANDOM ERRORS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

EXCHANGE METHODS; MISSING DATA; NONIGNORABLE NONRESPONSE; NONMONOTONE; PARAMETER MODEL; RANDOM EFFECTS; SEMIPARAMETRIC; STANDARD ERRORS; VERTEX EXCHANGE; VERTEX EXCHANGE METHOD;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

DATA INTERPRETATION; DISEASE; ERROR ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PARAMETER; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 62749191476     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2008.01021.x     Document Type: Article

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