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ArticleAmerican journal of public health2013

Mi??ing data: should we c?re?

Ofer Harel, Jennifer Boyko

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Article in American journal of public health, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Missing data and imputation in the international studies following the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Ofer HarelDepartment of Statistics at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-4120, USA. ofer.harel@uconn.edu
Jennifer Boyko

Funding

Dealing with missing data in HIV prevention trialsK01MH087219 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT STORRS · PI HAREL, OFER · 2010 to 2014
$889k
NIMH NIH HHS K01 MH087219NIMH NIH HHS K01MH087219
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Across all fields of research, the issue of missing data arises. In most studies, surveys, or experiments, there are instances of nonresponse that need to be appropriately dealt with to conduct reasonable statistical analyses. There are several types of missing data as well as ways to deal with incomplete data sets.

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BiasData Interpretation, StatisticalEpidemiologic MethodsHumansResearch Design

Identifiers

PMID23237157
PMCPMC3545417

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