Abstract Details
Activity Number:
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449
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Type:
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Topic Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
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Sponsor:
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Social Statistics Section
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Abstract #311348
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View Presentation
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Title:
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Continuous Latent Factor Model for Nonignorable Missing Data
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Author(s):
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Jun Zhang*+ and Mark Reiser
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Companies:
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and Arizona State University
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Keywords:
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Missing Data Mechanism ;
Missing Patterns ;
Nonignorability ;
Continuous Latent Factor
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Abstract:
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Many longitudinal studies, especially in clinical trials, suffer from missing data issues. Most estimation procedures assume that the missing values are ignorable. However, this assumption leads to unrealistic simplification and is implausible for many cases. When non-ignorable missingness are preferred, classical pattern-mixture models with the data stratified according to a variety of missing patterns and a model specified for each stratum, are widely used for longitudinal data analysis. But this assumption usually results in under-identifiability, because of the need to estimate many stratum-specific parameters. Further, pattern mixture models have the drawback that a large sample is usually required. In this paper, the continuous latent factor model is proposed and this novel approach overcomes limitations which exist in pattern mixture models by specifying a continuous latent factor. The advantages of this model, including small sample feasibility, are evaluated by comparing with Roy's pattern mixture model, based on simulations and application on a clinical study of AIDS patients with advanced immune suppression.
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