The use of multiple imputation for the analysis of missing data.

S Sinharay, HS Stern, D Russell - Psychological methods, 2001 - psycnet.apa.org
Psychological methods, 2001psycnet.apa.org
This article provides a comprehensive review of multiple imputation (MI), a technique for
analyzing data sets with missing values. Formally, MI is the process of replacing each
missing data point with a set of m> 1 plausible values to generate m complete data sets.
These complete data sets are then analyzed by standard statistical software, and the results
combined, to give parameter estimates and standard errors that take into account the
uncertainty due to the missing data values. This article introduces the idea behind MI …
Abstract
This article provides a comprehensive review of multiple imputation (MI), a technique for analyzing data sets with missing values. Formally, MI is the process of replacing each missing data point with a set of m> 1 plausible values to generate m complete data sets. These complete data sets are then analyzed by standard statistical software, and the results combined, to give parameter estimates and standard errors that take into account the uncertainty due to the missing data values. This article introduces the idea behind MI, discusses the advantages of MI over existing techniques for addressing missing data, describes how to do MI for real problems, reviews the software available to implement MI, and discusses the results of a simulation study aimed at finding out how assumptions regarding the imputation model affect the parameter estimates provided by MI.(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
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