A distance-based rounding strategy for post-imputation ordinal data

Journal of Applied Statistics

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 489-500

  Demirtas, Hakan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Multiple imputation; Ordinal data; Precision; Rounding

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649115914     PISSN: 02664763     EISSN: 13600532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02664760902744954     Document Type: Article

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