Model selection and model averaging after multiple imputation

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 71, Issue , 2014, Pages 758-770

  Schomaker, Michael ^a   Heumann, Christian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Akaike's information criterion; Bootstrap; Frequentist model averaging; Linear regression; Missing data; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

AKAIKE'S INFORMATION CRITERIONS; BOOTSTRAP; MISSING DATA; MODEL AVERAGING; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

ESTIMATION; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; LINEAR REGRESSION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; STATISTICAL TESTS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 84889086570     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2013.02.017     Document Type: Article

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