Comparison of imputation methods for missing laboratory data in medicine

BMJ Open

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Waljee, Akbar K ^a,b   Mukherjee, Ashin ^c   Singal, Amit G ^d,e   Zhang, Yiwei ^c   Warren, Jeffrey ^a   Balis, Ulysses ^a   Marrero, Jorge ^d   Zhu, Ji ^c   Higgins, Peter D R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE IMPUTATION BY CHAINED EQUATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84884547259     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2013-002847     Document Type: Article

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