Plausibility of multivariate normality assumption when multiply imputing non-Gaussian continuous outcomes: A simulation assessment

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 69-84

  Demirtas, Hakan ^a   Freels, Sally A ^a   Yucel, Recai M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Multimodality; Multiple imputation; Multivariate normality; Skewness; Symmetry

Indexed keywords

EID: 38349186156     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: 15635163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10629360600903866     Document Type: Article

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