A comparison of existing methods for multiple imputation in individual participant data meta-analysis

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 22, 2017, Pages 3507-3532

  Kunkel, Deborah ^a   Kaizar, Eloise E ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

chained equations; fully conditional specification; joint model; systematic missingness

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COVARIANCE; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL VARIABLE; MULTIPLE IMPUTATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ADOLESCENT; ALGORITHM; CHILD; FEMALE; MALE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL BIAS;

ADOLESCENT; ALGORITHMS; BIAS; BRAIN INJURIES, TRAUMATIC; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS;

EID: 85022323535     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.7388     Document Type: Article

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