Censored data considerations and analytical approaches for salivary bioscience data

Censored data considerations and analytical approaches for salivary bioscience data
July 24, 2021 0 Comments

Left censoring in salivary bioscience data happens when salivary analyte determinations fall beneath the decrease restrict of an assay’s measurement vary. Conventional statistical approaches for addressing censored values (i.e., recoding as lacking, substituting or extrapolating values) could introduce systematic bias. While specialised censored data statistical approaches (i.e., Maximum Likelihood Estimation, Regression on Ordered Statistics, Kaplan-Meier, …