Missing-data imputation

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CHAPTER 25Missing- data imputationMissing data arise in almost all serious statistical analyses. In this chapter wediscuss a variety of methods to handle missing data , including some relatively simpleapproaches that can often yield reasonable results. We use as a running example theSocial Indicators Survey, a telephone survey of New York City families conductedevery two years by the Columbia University School of Social Work. Nonresponsein this survey is a distraction to our main goal of studying trends in attitudes andeconomic conditions, and we would like to simply clean the dataset so it could beanalyzed as if there were no missingness. After some background in Sections , we discuss in Sections our general approachof random discusses situations where the Missing-data process must be modeled(this can be done in Bugs) in order to perform imputations data in R and BugsIn R, missing values are indicated by NA s.

Missing-data imputation Missing data arise in almost all serious statistical analyses. In this chapter we discuss avariety ofmethods to handle missing data, including some relativelysimple approaches that can often yield reasonable results. We use as a running example the Social Indicators Survey, a telephone survey of New York City families ...

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