Studying missingness in spinal cord injury data: challenges and impact of data imputation.

"the code describing the analysis can be accessed on our github repository ( https://github com/lbourguignon/missingness-in-sci-data )."

"the code describing the analysis can be accessed on our github repository ( https://github com/lbourguignon/missingness-in-sci-data )."

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateApproval for this study (secondary analysis) was received by an institutional ethical standards committee on human experimentation at the University of British Columbia. The original Sygen clinical trial [23–25] also received ethical approval, but was conducted before clinical trials were required to be registered (i.e., no clinicaltrial.gov identifier available). All experiments were performed in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations. Informed consent to participate was obtained from all of the participants as part of the original study. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests."

"Funding Open access funding provided by Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich This study was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (Ambizione Grant [PZ00P3_186101, Jutzeler]). SB was supported by the Botnar Research Centre for Child Health Postdoctoral Excellence Programme (#PEP-2021-1008). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The funding sources of the study had no role in study design, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation, or writing of the report. The corresponding authors had full access to all the data in the study and had final responsibility for the decision to submit for publication."