Multiple Imputation for Missing Data in Epidemiological and Clinical Research: Potential and Pitfalls

Overview

Journal BMJ

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2009 Jul 1

PMID 19564179

Citations 2700

Authors

Jonathan A C Sterne

Ian R White

John B Carlin

Michael Spratt

Patrick Royston

Michael G Kenward

Angela M Wood

James R Carpenter

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