Incidence of missing item scores in personality measurement, and simple item-score imputation

Methodology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 17-30

  Van Ginkel, Joost R ^a   Sijtsma, Klaas ^b   Van Der Ark, L Andries ^b   Vermunt, Jeroen K ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Incidence of missing data; Missing item scores; Multiple imputation of item scores; Questionnaire data; Two way imputation

Indexed keywords

EID: 75649090387     PISSN: 16141881     EISSN: 16142241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1614-2241/a000003     Document Type: Article

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