The prevention and treatment of missing data in clinical trials

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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Corporate Authors: National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on Handling Missing Data in Clinical Trials, National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on National Statistics
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2010.
Subjects:
Clinical trials > Statistical methods.
Experimental design.
Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic > statistics & numerical data
Biomedical Research > standards
Research Design
Online Access: Full text (Emmanuel users only)
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction and background
  • Trial designs to reduce the frequency of missing data
  • Trial strategies to reduce the frequency of missing data
  • Drawing inferences from incomplete data
  • Principles and methods of sensitivity analyses
  • Conclusions and recommendations.

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