Why assigning ongoing tobacco use is not necessarily a conservative approach to handling missing tobacco cessation outcomes

Nicotine and Tobacco Research

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 77-83

  Nelson, David B ^a   Partin, Melissa R ^a,b   Fu, Steven S ^a,b   Joseph, Anne M ^b   An, Lawrence C ^b  

^a VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTINENCE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PENALIZED IMPUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING CESSATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TOBACCO; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; TOBACCO USE DISORDER;

EID: 64049086102     PISSN: 14622203     EISSN: 1469994X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ntr/ntn013     Document Type: Article

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