Comparison of several multiple imputation strategies for repeated measures analysis of clinical scales: To truncate or not to?

Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 924-943

  Lipkovich, Ilya ^a   Kadziola, Zbigniew ^b   Xu, Lei ^c   Sugihara, Tomoko ^d   Mallinckrodt, Craig H ^e  

^a IQVIA   (United States)

^b Eli Lilly Regional Operations   (Austria)

^c BIOGEN   (United States)

^d PharmaNet/i3   (United States)

^e ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Multiple imputation; Ordinal clinical scales; Repeated measures analysis; Rounding and truncation

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; PLACEBO;

ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESIS; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BOOTSTRAPPING; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COMPARATIVE STUDY; EFFECT SIZE; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OUTCOME VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL BIAS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS;

EID: 84901338470     PISSN: 10543406     EISSN: 15205711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10543406.2014.901344     Document Type: Article

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