Missing data: An introductory conceptual overview for the novice researcher

Canadian Journal of Nursing Research

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 156-171

  El Masri, Maher M ^a   Fox Wasylyshyn, Susan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

Case mean substitution; Deletion; Group mean substitution; Imputation; Missing data; Patterns of missingness

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NURSING RESEARCH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; NURSING RESEARCH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 31044450624     PISSN: 08445621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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