Benchmarking k-nearest neighbour imputation with homogeneous Likert data

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 463-489

  Jönsson, Per ^a   Wohlin, Claes ^a  

^a BLEKINGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Imputation; K Nearest Neighbour; Likert data; Missing data

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA RECORDING; DATA REDUCTION; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STATISTICAL METHODS; SURVEYS;

IMPUTATION; K-NEAREST NEIGHBOUR; LIKERT DATA; MISSING DATA;

DATA MINING;

EID: 33746034603     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: 15737616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10664-006-9001-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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