An analysis of nonignorable nonresponse to income in a survey with a rotating panel design

Journal of Official Statistics

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 211-229

  Giusti, Caterina ^a   Little, Roderick J A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Missing data; Multiple imputation; Pattern mixture models; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864737118     PISSN: 0282423X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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