Reweighting estimators for Cox regression with missing covariate data: Analysis of insulin resistance and risk of stroke in the Northern Manhattan Study

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 28, 2011, Pages 3328-3340

  Xu, Qiang ^a   Paik, Myunghee Cho ^b   Rundek, Tatjana ^c   Elkind, Mitchell S V ^d   Sacco, Ralph L ^c  

^a CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Missing covariate; Proportional hazards model; Weighted estimating equation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INVERSE PROBABILITY WEIGHTING ESTIMATOR; JACKKNIFE TEST; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MISSING COVARIATE DATA; OBSERVER BIAS; OUTCOME VARIABLE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PROBABILITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REWEIGHED ESTIMATING EQUATION; REWEIGHTING ESTIMATOR; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLE SIZE; SAMPLING ERROR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STROKE;

AGE FACTORS; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INSULIN RESISTANCE; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; NEW YORK CITY; POPULATION GROUPS; PROBABILITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SAMPLE SIZE; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; STROKE;

EID: 81955164233     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4380     Document Type: Article

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