Non-ignorable loss to follow-up: Correcting mortality estimates based on additional outcome ascertainment

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 129-142

  Schomaker, M ^a   Gsponer, T ^b   Estill, J ^b   Fox, M ^c,d   Boulle, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Antiretroviral treatment; HIV; Inverse probability weighting; Linkage; Loss to follow up; Missing not at random

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INVERSE PROBABILITY WEIGHT; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOSS TO FOLLOW UP; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL BIAS; SURVIVAL TIME;

ANTIRETROVIRAL TREATMENT; HIV; INVERSE PROBABILITY WEIGHTING; LINKAGE; LOSS TO FOLLOW-UP; MISSING NOT AT RANDOM;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANTI-RETROVIRAL AGENTS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COHORT STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HIV; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LOST TO FOLLOW-UP; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; REGISTRIES;

EID: 84889639633     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5912     Document Type: Article

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