Estimating stroke-free and total life expectancy in the presence of non-ignorable missing values

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 173, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 331-349

  van den Hout, Ardo ^a   Matthews, Fiona E ^a  

^a MRC BIOSTATISTICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Healthy life expectancy; Missing data; Multistate model; Selection model; Survival

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950952779     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2009.00610.x     Document Type: Article

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