Missing Data and Informative Cluster Sizes

Statistical and Methodological Aspects of Oral Health Research

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 241-257

  Gansky, Stuart A ^a   Neuhaus, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

California Oral Health Needs Assessment of Children (COHNAC); Complete case (CC) analysis; Handling missing data by designing and performing studies to limit missing data; Missing At Random (MAR); Missing data inevitable in real life studies; Missing data and informative cluster sizes; Missing data terminology and patterns; Missing not at random (MNAR) (nonignorable) models; Problem of missing data and dropouts; Schematic of monotone missing data pattern

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948773898     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470744116.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

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