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The Prevention and Treatment of Missing Data in Clinical Trials by National Research Council; Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education; Committee on National Statistics; Panel on Handling Missing Data in Clinical Trials is a medicine available to read on EtoBox.

<p>Randomized clinical trials are the primary tool for evaluating new medical interventions. Randomization provides for a fair comparison between treatment and control groups, balancing out, on average, distributions of known and unknown factors among the participants. Unfortunately, these studies often lack a substantial percentage of data. This missing data reduces the benefit provided by the randomization and introduces potential biases in the comparison of the treatment groups.<br> <br> Miss

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Author
National Research Council; Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education; Committee on National Statistics; Panel on Handling Missing Data in Clinical Trials
Publisher
Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press
Published
2010
Language
EN
ISBN
9780309188258
Category
medicine
Subjects
Science, Technology, Reference