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SUBMITTER: Sun B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5860553 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sun BaoLuo B Perkins Neil J NJ Cole Stephen R SR Harel Ofer O Mitchell Emily M EM Schisterman Enrique F EF Tchetgen Tchetgen Eric J EJ
American journal of epidemiology 20180301 3
Missing data is a common occurrence in epidemiologic research. In this paper, 3 data sets with induced missing values from the Collaborative Perinatal Project, a multisite US study conducted from 1959 to 1974, are provided as examples of prototypical epidemiologic studies with missing data. Our goal was to estimate the association of maternal smoking behavior with spontaneous abortion while adjusting for numerous confounders. At the same time, we did not necessarily wish to evaluate the joint di ...[more]