Partial and latent ignorability in missing-data problems

Biometrika

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 37-50

  Harel, Ofer ^a   Schafer, Joseph L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Missing not at random; Multiple imputation; Nonignorable missingness

Indexed keywords

EID: 60449120489     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: 14643510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/asn069     Document Type: Article

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