What is meant by "missing at random"?

Statistical Science

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 257-268

  Seaman, Shaun ^a   Galati, John ^b   Jackson, Dan ^a   Carlin, John ^c  

^a MRC BIOSTATISTICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Direct likelihood inference; Frequentist inference; Ignorability; Missing completely at random; Repeated sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878958480     PISSN: 08834237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/13-STS415     Document Type: Article

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