Missing data has been a problem in many quality of life studies. This paper focuses upon the issues involved in handling forms which contain one or more missing items, and reviews the alternative procedures. One of the most widely practised approaches is imputation using the mean of all observed ite
Assessing quality of life in a randomized clinical trial: Correcting for missing data
✍ Scribed by Nina Gunnes; Taral G Seierstad; Steinar Aamdal; Paal F Brunsvig; Anne-Birgitte Jacobsen; Stein Sundstrøm; Odd O Aalen
- Book ID
- 115008926
- Publisher
- BioMed Central
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 624 KB
- Volume
- 9
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1471-2288
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