Multiple imputation using multivariate gh transformations

Journal of Applied Statistics

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2177-2198

  He, Yulei ^a   Raghunathan, Trivellore E ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

bootstrap; hospital quality; imputation diagnostics; latent variable; multivariate missingness; quantiles

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865806474     PISSN: 02664763     EISSN: 13600532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2012.702268     Document Type: Article

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