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The prevention and treatment of missing data in clinical trials

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Little, Roderick J., D'Agostino, Ralph, Cohen, Michael L., Dickersin, Kay, Emerson, Scott S., Farrar, John T., Frangakis, Constantine, Hogan, Joseph W. +8 more·2012·New England Journal of Medicine

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The Journal welcomes submissions of manuscripts for the Clinical Problem-Solving series.This regular feature considers the step-by-step process of clinical decision making.For more information, please see authors.NEJM.org.

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Little, R. J., D'Agostino, R., Cohen, M. L., Dickersin, K., Emerson, S. S., Farrar, J. T., Frangakis, C., Hogan, J. W., Molenberghs, G., Murphy, S. A., Neaton, J. D., Rotnitzky, A., Scharfstein, D., Shih, W. J., Siegel, J. P., & Stern, H.
Affiliations
  • University of Michigan (US)
  • Johns Hopkins University (US)
  • University of Washington (US)
  • University of Pennsylvania (US)
  • Brown University (US)
  • Hasselt University (BE)
  • University of Minnesota (US)
  • Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (AR)
  • University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (US)
  • Johnson & Johnson (United States) (US)
  • University of California, Irvine (US)
Venue
New England Journal of Medicine
Published
2012-10-04
Volume
367
Issue
14
Pages
1355-1360
ISSN
  • 0028-4793 (ISSN-L)
  • 1533-4406
OpenAlex
W2009432182
Cited by
1,884
References
18
Citations by year
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FWCI
120.54
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • New England Journal of Medicine (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Document Server@UHasselt (UHasselt) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Funders
  • National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (RC1AA019186, P01AA019072)
  • National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH080015)
  • National Institute on Drug Abuse (P50DA010075)
  • National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (R01AI102710, P30AI042853)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference
  • Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials
  • Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
Keywords
missing data, clinical trials, missing data imputation, clinical decision-making
MeSH terms
Clinical Trials as Topic, Data Collection, Research Design, Clinical Trials, Phase III as Topic, Intention to Treat Analysis

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