Impact of missing data on person-model fit and person trait estimation

Applied Psychological Measurement

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 466-479

  Zhang, Bo ^a   Walker, Cindy M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hotdeck imputation; Missing data; Model based imputation; Pairwise deletion; Person fit

Indexed keywords

EID: 49249138299     PISSN: 01466216     EISSN: 15523497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146621607307692     Document Type: Article

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