Merging data from multiple studies has been widely adopted in biomedical research. In this paper, we consider two major issues related to merging longitudinal datasets. We first develop a rigorous hypothesis testing procedure to assess the validity of data merging, and then propose a flexible...

We propose an estimator that is more robust than doubly robust estimators, based on weighting complete cases using weights other than inverse probability when estimating the population mean of a response variable subject to ignorable missingness. We allow multiple models for both the propensity...