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Multiple imputation for estimation of an occurrence rate in cohorts with attrition and discrete follow-up time points: a simulation study

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BMC MEDICAL RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
卷 10, 期 -, 页码 -

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BIOMED CENTRAL LTD
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-10-79

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  1. French Institute for Public Health Research (IReSP)
  2. Ile-de-France Region

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Background: In longitudinal cohort studies, subjects may be lost to follow-up at any time during the study. This leads to attrition and thus to a risk of inaccurate and biased estimations. The purpose of this paper is to show how multiple imputation can take advantage of all the information collected during follow-up in order to estimate the cumulative probability P(E) of an event E, when the first occurrence of this event is observed at t successive time points of a longitudinal study with attrition. Methods: We compared the performance of multiple imputation with that of Kaplan-Meier estimation in several simulated attrition scenarios. Results: In missing-completely-at-random scenarios, the multiple imputation and Kaplan-Meier methods performed well in terms of bias (less than 1%) and coverage rate (range = [94.4%; 95.8%]). In missing-at-random scenarios, the Kaplan-Meier method was associated with a bias ranging from -5.1% to 7.0% and with a very poor coverage rate (as low as 0.2%). Multiple imputation performed much better in this situation (bias <2%, coverage rate >83.4%). Conclusions: Multiple imputation shows promise for estimation of an occurrence rate in cohorts with attrition. This study is a first step towards defining appropriate use of multiple imputation in longitudinal studies.

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