Quantifying the impact of fixed effects modeling of clusters in multiple imputation for cluster randomized trials

Biometrical Journal

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 57-74

  Andridge, Rebecca R ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster randomized; Missing data; Multiple imputation

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER RANDOMIZED; CLUSTER RANDOMIZED TRIALS; CORRELATED OBSERVATIONS; FIXED EFFECT MODELS; MISSING DATA; MULTIPLE IMPUTATION; NUMBER OF CLUSTERS; STUDY GROUPS; TREATMENT GROUP; VARIANCE ESTIMATORS;

EID: 78851470246     PISSN: 03233847     EISSN: 15214036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bimj.201000140     Document Type: Article

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