Does the missing data imputation method affect the composition and performance of prognostic models?

Iranian Red Crescent Medical Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Baneshi, M R ^a   Talei, A R ^b  

^a KERMAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Data; Expectation maximum algorithm; Multivariable imputation via chained equations

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MULTIPLE IMPUTATION VIA CHAINED EQUATION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84855280771     PISSN: 20741804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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