A Note on MAR, Identifying Restrictions, Model Comparison, and Sensitivity Analysis in Pattern Mixture Models with and without Covariates for Incomplete Data

Biometrics

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 810-818

  Wang, Chenguang ^a   Daniels, Michael J ^b  

^a CENTER FOR DEVICES AND RADIOLOGICAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Deviance information criterion; Missing at random; Nonfuture dependence

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; BIOMETRICS; DATA HANDLING;

COVARIATES; DANIELS; DEVIANCE INFORMATION CRITERIA; INFORMATION CRITERION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MISSING AT RANDOMS; MISSING DATA; MIXTURE MODELING; MODELS COMPARISONS; NONFUTURE DEPENDENCE;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DATA SET; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; LONGITUDINAL GRADIENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 80052784998     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2011.01565.x     Document Type: Article

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