Impact of non-normal random effects on inference by multiple imputation: A simulation assessment

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 790-801

  Yucel, Recai M ^a   Demirtas, Hakan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION MEASURES; COVERAGE RATE; ERROR TERMS; ESTIMATION QUALITY; INCOMPLETE DATA; LINEAR MIXED-EFFECTS MODEL; MISSING DATA; MISSPECIFICATION; MULTIPLE IMPUTATION; PREDICTIVE DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM EFFECTS; REGRESSION COEFFICIENT; SIMULATION ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION STUDIES; SUBJECT-SPECIFIC;

SIMULATORS;

EID: 70549084402     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2009.01.016     Document Type: Article

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