Dealing with missing outcome data in randomized trials and observational studies

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 175, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 210-217

  Groenwold, Rolf H H ^a   Donders, A Rogier T ^b   Roes, Kit C B ^a   Harrell, Frank E ^c   Moons, Karel G M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

confounding; loss to follow up; missing data; multiple imputation; randomized trials

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; COMPLETE CASE ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE IMPUTATION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SINGLE IMPUTATION;

EID: 84856206744     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwr302     Document Type: Article

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