Combining fractional polynomial model building with multiple imputation

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 25, 2015, Pages 3298-3317

  Morris, Tim P ^a,b   White, Ian R ^c   Carpenter, James R ^a,b   Stanworth, Simon J ^d   Royston, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

fractional polynomials; missing data; multiple imputation; multivariable fractional polynomials

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOOTSTRAPPING; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE REGISTRY; ERROR; FRACTIONAL POLYNOMIAL MODEL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL VARIABLE; MULTIPLE IMPUTATION; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; WALD TYPE STATISTICS TEST; WEIGHTED LIKELIHOOD RATIO TEST; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; REGISTER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; REGISTRIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84931431062     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.6553     Document Type: Article

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