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Multiple imputation for estimation of an occurrence rate in cohorts with attrition and discrete follow-up time points: a simulation study

BACKGROUND: In longitudinal cohort studies, subjects may be lost to follow-up at any time during the study. This leads to attrition and thus to a risk of inaccurate and biased estimations. The purpose of this paper is to show how multiple imputation can take advantage of all the information collecte...

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Autores principales: Soullier, Noémie, de La Rochebrochard, Elise, Bouyer, Jean
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2944306/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20815883
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-10-79