The missing=smoking assumption: A fallacy in internet-based smoking cessation trials?

Nicotine and Tobacco Research

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 25-33

  Blankers, Matthijs ^a,b,c   Smit, Eline Suzanne ^b,d   van der Pol, Peggy ^a   de Vries, Hein ^d   Hoving, Ciska ^d   van Laar, Margriet ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTION   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c Department of Research ^*  (Netherlands)

^d MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COCHRANE LIBRARY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA PROCESSING; HUMAN; INTERNET; INTERNET BASED SMOKING CESSATION; PENALIZED IMPUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION PROGRAM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL BIAS; STATISTICAL MODEL; PATIENT DROPOUT; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; SMOKING CESSATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; INTERNET; PATIENT DROPOUTS; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION;

EID: 84954492591     PISSN: 14622203     EISSN: 1469994X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ntr/ntv055     Document Type: Article

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