Multiple imputation of covariates by fully conditional specification: Accommodating the substantive model

Statistical Methods in Medical Research

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 462-487

  Bartlett, Jonathan W ^a   Seaman, Shaun R ^b   White, Ian R ^b   Carpenter, James R ^a,c  

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

^b MRC BIOSTATISTICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^c MRC CLINICAL TRIALS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

compatibility; fully conditional specification; interactions; multiple imputation; non linearities; rejection sampling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS;

MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 84937894556     PISSN: 09622802     EISSN: 14770334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0962280214521348     Document Type: Article

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