Imputation of missing item responses: Some simple techniques

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 331-351

  Huisman, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Hot deck imputation; Item response theory; Mean imputation; Missing data; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034310289     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1004782230065     Document Type: Article

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