Allowing for uncertainty due to missing and LOCF imputed outcomes in meta-analysis

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2019, Pages 720-737

  Mavridis, Dimitris ^a   Salanti, Georgia ^b   Furukawa, Toshi A ^c   Cipriani, Andrea ^d,e   Chaimani, Anna ^f   White, Ian R ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e OXFORD HEALTH NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^f PARIS DESCARTES UNIVERSITY   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

expert opinion; informatively missing; last observation carried forward; pattern mixture model; sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; META ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY; DEPRESSION; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PATIENT DROPOUT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL BIAS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; BIAS; DEPRESSION; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATIENT DROPOUTS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 85055290547     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.8009     Document Type: Article

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