Predicting missing quality of life data that were later recovered: An empirical comparison of approaches

Clinical Trials

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 333-342

  Fielding, Shona ^a   Fayers, Peter ^a,b   Ramsay, Craig ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE;

DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 77955579966     PISSN: 17407745     EISSN: 17407753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1740774510374626     Document Type: Article

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