Are we missing the importance of missing values in HIV Prevention Randomized Clinical Trials? Review and Recommendations

AIDS and Behavior

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1382-1393

  Harel, Ofer ^a   Pellowski, Jennifer ^a   Kalichman, Seth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; HIV prevention; Incomplete data; Missing data; RCT

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA COLLECTION; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84865164498     PISSN: 10907165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10461-011-0125-6     Document Type: Review

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