Fully conditional specification in multivariate imputation

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 76, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1049-1064

  Van Buuren, S ^a,b   Brand, J P L ^c   Groothuis Oudshoorn, C G M ^d   Rubin, D B ^e  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d ROESSINGH RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Netherlands)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributional compatibility; Gibbs sampling; Multiple imputation; Multivariate missing data; Proper imputation; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751583679     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: 15635163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10629360600810434     Document Type: Article

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