Modeling missing binary outcome data in a successful web-based smokeless tobacco cessation program

Addiction

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1005-1015

  Smolkowski, Keith ^a   Danaher, Brian G ^a   Seeley, John R ^a   Kosty, Derek B ^a   Severson, Herbert H ^a  

^a OREGON RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Imputation; Sensitivity analysis; Smokeless tobacco; Tobacco cessation; Web based intervention

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CANADA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; INTERNET; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SMOKELESS TOBACCO; SMOKING CESSATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CANADA; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; INTERNET; MALE; PATIENT DROPOUTS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOBACCO USE CESSATION; TOBACCO, SMOKELESS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77952007790     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: 13600443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2009.02896.x     Document Type: Article

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