Inverse-Probability-Weighted Estimation for Monotone and Nonmonotone Missing Data

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 187, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 585-591

  Sun, Baoluo ^d   Perkins, Neil J ^a   Cole, Stephen R ^e   Harel, Ofer ^b   Mitchell, Emily M ^c   Schisterman, Enrique F ^a   Tchetgen Tchetgen, Eric J ^d  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY   (United States)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

inverse probability weighting; missing data; missing at random data; nonmonotone missingness

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ESTIMATION METHOD; INVERSE ANALYSIS; MODEL VALIDATION; PROBABILITY; RESEARCH WORK; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING;

ARTICLE; DATA PROCESSING; INVERSE PROBABILITY WEIGHTING; MATERNAL SMOKING; MISSING DATA; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; STATISTICAL MODEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; PREGNANCY; PROBABILITY; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

UNITED STATES;

DATA ACCURACY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PROBABILITY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 85042933363     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwx350     Document Type: Article

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