Imputation of missing values of tumour stage in population-based cancer registration

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Eisemann, Nora ^a   Waldmann, Annika ^b   Katalinic, Alexander ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MALE; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; REGISTER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; REGISTRIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 80052845770     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-11-129     Document Type: Article

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