Imputation strategies for missing binary outcomes in cluster randomized trials

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Ma, Jinhui ^a,b   Akhtar Danesh, Noori ^a   Dolovich, Lisa ^a,c   Thabane, Lehana ^a,b,c,d  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ST JOSEPH S HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^c CENTRE FOR EVALUATION OF MEDICINES   (Canada)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROBABILITY; PROPENSITY SCORE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MARKOV CHAINS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROPENSITY SCORE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79951550022     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-11-18     Document Type: Article

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