Missing data in longitudinal studies: strategies for bayesian modeling and sensitivity analysis

Drawing from the authors’ own work and from the most recent developments in the field, Missing Data in Longitudinal Studies: Strategies for Bayesian Modeling and Sensitivity Analysis describes a comprehensive Bayesian approach for drawing inference from incomplete data in longitudinal studies. To illustrate these methods, the authors employ several data sets throughout that cover a range of study designs, variable types, and missing data issues. The book first reviews modern approaches to formulate and interpret regression models for longitudinal data. It then discusses key ideas in Bayesian inference, including specifying prior distributions, computing posterior distribution, and assessing model fit. The book carefully describes the assumptions needed to make inferences about a full-data distribution from incompletely observed data. For settings with ignorable dropout, it emphasizes the importance ofcovariance models for inference about the mean while for nonignorable dropout, the book studies a variety of models in detail. It concludes with three casestudies that highlight important features of the Bayesian approach for handling nonignorable missingness.

• ISBN: 978-1-58488-609-9
• Editorial: Chapman & Hall/CRC Statistics and Mathematics
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 328
• Fecha Publicación: 03/03/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés