Sensitivity analysis for a partially missing binary outcome in a two-arm randomized clinical trial

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 24, 2014, Pages 4170-4185

  Liublinska, Victoria ^a   Rubin, Donald B ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Graphical displays; Missing data; Missing data mechanism; Multiple imputation; Tipping point analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DISABILITY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KERNEL METHOD; KYPHOPLASTY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; OSTEOPOROSIS; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPINAL PAIN; SPINE FRACTURE; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRA COMPRESSION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRACTURES, COMPRESSION; PAIN; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPINAL FRACTURES; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FRACTURES, COMPRESSION; HUMANS; KYPHOPLASTY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PAIN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SPINAL FRACTURES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84908042851     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.6197     Document Type: Article

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