Item imputation without specifying scale structure

Methodology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 31-36

  Van Buuren, Stef ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fully conditional specification; Item response theory; MICE; Missing data; Mistress; Two way imputation

Indexed keywords

EID: 75649144910     PISSN: 16141881     EISSN: 16142241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1614-2241/a000004     Document Type: Article

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