Joint modeling of missing data due to non-participation and death in longitudinal aging studies

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 2260-2268

  Rajan, Kumar B ^a   Leurgans, Sue E ^b  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Missing data; Missing due to death; Weighted regression

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DEATH; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PROBABILITY; RISK FACTOR; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALGORITHMS; CHICAGO; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORTALITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REFUSAL TO PARTICIPATE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 77956931028     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4010     Document Type: Article

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