A comparison of imputation techniques for handling Missing data

Western Journal of Nursing Research

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 815-829

  Musil, Carol M ^a   Warner, Camille B ^a   Yobas, Piyanee Klainin ^b   Jones, Susan L ^c  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL NURSING RESEARCH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; CLINICAL NURSING RESEARCH; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036834375     PISSN: 01939459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/019394502762477004     Document Type: Article

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