Imputing cross-sectional missing data: Comparison of common techniques

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 583-590

  Hawthorne, Graeme ^a   Elliott, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Horizontal mean substitution; Hot deck imputation; Imputation; Item mean substitution; Listwise deletion; Missing data; Person mean substitution; Regression imputation; Vertical mean substitution

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL HEALTH; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PUBLIC HEALTH; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANXIETY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; DEPRESSION; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 27744525104     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1614.2005.01630.x     Document Type: Article

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