Multiple imputation using chained equations for missing data in TIMSS: a case study

Large-Scale Assessments in Education

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Bouhlila, Donia Smaali ^a   Sellaouti, Fethi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS EL MANAR   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Complete Case Analysis; Imputation Model; Impute Dataset; Multiple Imputation; Posterior Predictive Distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925256963     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21960739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2196-0739-1-4     Document Type: Article

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