Impact of missing data mechanism on the estimate of change: a case study on cognitive function and polypharmacy among older persons

Longitudinal studies typically suffer from incompleteness of data. Attrition is a major problem in studies of older persons since participants may die during the study or are too frail to participate in follow-up examinations. Attrition is typically related to an individual’s health; therefore, igno...

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Autores principales: Lavikainen, Piia, Leskinen, Esko, Hartikainen, Sirpa, Möttönen, Jyrki, Sulkava, Raimo, Korhonen, Maarit J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2015
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Original Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4323142/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25678815
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/CLEP.S72918

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4323142/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25678815
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/CLEP.S72918

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