Toward best practices in analyzing datasets with missing data: Comparisons and recommendations

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 926-945

  Johnson, David R ^a   Young, Rebekah ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Maximum likelihood; Methods; Missing data; Multiple imputation; National Survey of Families and Households; Regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053330700     PISSN: 00222445     EISSN: 17413737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2011.00861.x     Document Type: Article

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