Use of inverse probability weighting to adjust for non-participation in estimating brain volumes in schizophrenia patients

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 194, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 326-332

  Haapea, Marianne ^a,b   Veijola, Juha ^a,b   Tanskanen, Päivikki ^b   Jääskeläinen, Erika ^a,b   Isohanni, Matti ^a,b   Miettunen, Jouko ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b OULU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Missing data; Non response bias; Unit non response; Weighting methods

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FIELD STUDY; FINLAND; GRAY MATTER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INVERSE PROBABILITY WEIGHTING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; WHITE MATTER;

AGE OF ONSET; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; COHORT STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 82455199153     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: 18727506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2011.06.002     Document Type: Article

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