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Do the methods used to analyse missing data really matter? An examination of data from an observational study of Intermediate Care patients

BACKGROUND: Missing data is a common statistical problem in healthcare datasets from populations of older people. Some argue that arbitrarily assuming the mechanism responsible for the missingness and therefore the method for dealing with this missingness is not the best option—but is this always tr...

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Autores principales: Kaambwa, Billingsley, Bryan, Stirling, Billingham, Lucinda
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3441253/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22738344
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-5-330