Validity and power of missing data imputation for extreme sampling and terminal measures designs in mediation analysis

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue OCT, 2011, Pages

  Makowsky, Robert ^a   Beasley, T Mark ^a   Gadbury, Gary L ^b   Albert, Jeffrey M ^c   Kennedy, Richard E ^a   Allison, David B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Extreme sampling; Mediation; Missing data; Terminal measures

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865330815     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2011.00075     Document Type: Article

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