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Editorial
. 2011 Aug;20(8):1567-70.
doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-11-0505. Epub 2011 Jul 12.

Incomplete data: what you don't know might hurt you

Daniel F Heitjan
Editorial

Incomplete data: what you don't know might hurt you

Daniel F Heitjan. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2011 Aug.

Abstract

Molecular epidemiology studies commonly exhibit missing observations. Methods for extracting correct and efficient analyses from incomplete data are well known in statistics, but relatively few such methods have diffused into applications. I review some areas of incomplete data research that are relevant to molecular epidemiology and appeal for greater efforts by statisticians to translate their methods into practice.

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