A comparison of various software tools for dealing with missing data via imputation

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 81, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1653-1675

  Abrahantesa, José Cortiñas ^a   Sotto, Cristina ^a,b   Molenberghs, Geert ^a,c   Vrommand, Geert ^d   Bierinckx, Bart ^d  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES   (Philippines)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d IM Associates BVBA   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Missing at random; Missing data; Missing not at random; Multiple imputation; Random forest

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855746403     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: 15635163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949655.2010.498788     Document Type: Article

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