A review of the handling of missing longitudinal outcome data in clinical trials

Trials

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Powney, Matthew ^a   Williamson, Paula ^a   Kirkham, Jamie ^a   Kolamunnage Dona, Ruwanthi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data; Handling; Longitudinal; Measures; Missing; Repeated; Review

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA EXTRACTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MISSING DATA HANDLING; PATIENT DROPOUTS; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATIENT DROPOUTS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84902740980     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-15-237     Document Type: Review

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