Missing Data in Randomized Clinical Trials for Weight Loss: Scope of the Problem, State of the Field, and Performance of Statistical Methods

• Mai A. Elobeid,

  Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Miguel A. Padilla,

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Theresa McVie,

  Affiliation BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Olivia Thomas,

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• David W. Brock,

  Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Bret Musser,

  Affiliation Merck & Co., Inc, Rahway, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Kaifeng Lu,

  Affiliation Merck & Co., Inc, Rahway, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Christopher S. Coffey,

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Renee A. Desmond,

  Affiliation Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Marie-Pierre St-Onge,

  Affiliation New York Obesity Research Center, St. Luke's/Roosevelt Hospital & College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Kishore M. Gadde,

  Affiliations Departments of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Centre, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, The Research Triangle Research Institute, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Steven B. Heymsfield,

  Affiliation Merck & Co., Inc, Rahway, New Jersey, United States of America

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• David B. Allison

  * E-mail: Dallison@uab.edu

  Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Clinical Nutrition Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Nutrition Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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