Addressing and advancing the problem of missing data

Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 945-956

  Walton, Marc K ^a  

^a CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Imputation; Missing data; Prevention; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC ERROR;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 75749156657     PISSN: 10543406     EISSN: 15205711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10543400903238959     Document Type: Review

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