Analysis of multiple-variable missing-not-at-random survey data for child lead surveillance using NHANES

• Published in: Statistics in medicine Vol. 35; no. 29; pp. 5417 - 5429
• Main Authors: Roberts, Eric M., English, Paul B.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Blackwell Publishing Ltd 20.12.2016; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Bayes Theorem; Child; Children & youth; Data Interpretation, Statistical; Health surveillance; Humans; Lead - blood; Lead content; Lead poisoning; Lead Poisoning - epidemiology; Medical statistics; missing-not-at-random; Multivariate Analysis; Nutrition Surveys; Poverty; Public health; selection models; Surveillance; survey data; Surveys and Questionnaires; United States > US; lead poisoning; survey data; selection models; missing-not-at-random

Background Although ongoing, multi‐topic surveys form the basis of public health surveillance in many countries, their utility for specific subject matter areas can be limited by high proportions of missing data. For example, the National Health and Examination Survey is the main resource for survei...