On the stationary distribution of iterative imputations

Biometrika

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 155-173

  Liu, Jingchen ^a   Gelman, Andrew ^a   Hill, Jennifer ^b   Su, Yu Sung ^c   Kropko, Jonathan ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chained equation; Convergence; Iterative imputation; Markov chain

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897668423     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: 14643510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/ast044     Document Type: Article

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