… James R Carpenter, reader in medical and social statistics5 … Carpenter JR, Kenward
MG. A critique of common approaches to missing data. In: Missing data in randomised …

… Carpenter declares that he or his institution have received funds from the Economic and
Social Research Council and the Medical Research Council ( MRC) for missing data research, …

Background The heterogeneity statistic I 2 , interpreted as the percentage of variability due
to heterogeneity between studies rather than sampling error, depends on precision, that is, …

… There is a very sizeable statistical literature on this, whose evolution and connections are
explored in Carpenter & Kenward (2015b). Here we touch on the principal approaches, how …

Objective To assess the adequacy of reporting of non-inferiority trials alongside the
consistency and utility of current recommended analyses and guidelines. Design Review of …

… Dr Carpenter reports personal fees from Pfizer, grants and non-financial support from GSK
and grants from Novartis, outside the submitted work. Dr Reeves is a co-convenor of the …

… Please email james.carpenter@lshtm .ac.uk in the first instance. … A comparison with
multiple imputation in a simple setting is given by Carpenter et al. (2006). The pros and cons are …

Meta-analysis plays a key role in evidence synthesis in many research disciplines, not least
the social sciences, medicine and economics. The aim of this book is to equip those …

Missing covariate data commonly occur in epidemiological and clinical research, and are
often dealt with using multiple imputation. Imputation of partially observed covariates is …

Multiple imputation (MI) is now well established as a flexible, general, method for the analysis
of data sets with missing values. Most implementations assume the missing data are `…