Biases in SPSS 12.0 Missing Value Analysis

American Statistician

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 160-164

  von Hippel, Paul T ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

EM algorithm; Ignorable missingness; Imputation; Maximum likelihood; Missing at random; Missing data; Missing values; Multiple imputation; Nonignorable missingness

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015814688     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/0003130043204     Document Type: Article

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