How to Deal with Missing Categorical Data: Test of a Simple Bayesian Method

Organizational Research Methods

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 309-327

  Chen, Gongyue ^a   Åstebro, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayesian; Categorical variable; Imputation; Missing data

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038686154     PISSN: 10944281     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094428103254672     Document Type: Review

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