Missing Data in Homicide Research

Homicide Studies

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 163-192

  Riedel, Marc ^a   Regoeczi, Wendy C ^b  

^a SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ad hoc procedures; expectation maximization; hot deck imputation; imputation; legal decisions; listwise deletion; MAR; MCAR; merging data sets; missing data; pairwise deletion; weighting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992827372     PISSN: 10887679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1088767904265447     Document Type: Article

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