How much can we learn about missing data?: An exploration of a clinical trial in psychiatry

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

Volumn 173, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 593-612

  Jackson, Dan ^a   White, Ian R ^a   Leese, Morven ^b  

^a MRC BIOSTATISTICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Informatively missing; Missing data; Missingness not at random; Prior elicitation; Proxy data; Repeated attempts; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954801383     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2009.00627.x     Document Type: Article

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