The prevention and treatment of missing data in clinical trials

"Randomized clinical trials are the primary tool for evaluating new medical interventions. Randomization provides for a fair comparison between treatment and control groups, balancing out, on average, distributions of known and unknown factors among the participants. Unfortunately, these studie...

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Autor principal: National Research Council (U.S.).
Autores Corporativos: National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on Handling Missing Data in Clinical Trials (-), National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on National Statistics, National Academies Press (U.S.)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press 2010.
Edición:1st ed
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ""Front Matter""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Glossary""; ""Summary""; ""1 Introduction and Background""; ""2 Trial Designs to Reduce the Frequency of Missing Data""; ""3 Trial Strategies to Reduce the Frequency of Missing Data""; ""4 Drawing Inferences from Incomplete Data""; ""5 Principles and Methods of Sensitivity Analyses""; ""6 Conclusions and Recommendations""; ""References""; ""Appendix A: Clinical Trials: Overview and Terminology""; ""Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff""; ""Committee on National Statistics""