Search Results - subject:"missing data"

Measuring Inequalities: Do The Surveys Give The Real Picture? Study Of Two Surveys In Cote D’Ivoire And Madagascar

Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine; Guénard, Charlotte - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2006

Measurements of standards of living and its distribution are affected by methodological choices made before the consumption and income aggregates are calculated and by failure to correct the primary databases, but several sources of bias can also have an impact. This study, based on surveys held...

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Missing data imputation, classification, prediction and average treatment effect estimation via Random Recursive Partitioning

Iacus, Stefano; Porro, Giuseppe - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2006

proximity matrix which can be used in non parametric hot-deck missing data imputation, classification, prediction, average … they fall in the same cell of these random partitions over all the replications. RRP works also in the presence of missing … data and is invariant under monotonic transformations of the data. No other formal properties of the method are known yet …

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Niger; Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes: Data Module, Response by the Authorities, Detailed Assessments Using the Data Quality Assessment Framework (DQAF)

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006

Nigerâ€™s overall macroeconomic statistics is a picture of contrasts. Establishing the National Statistical Institute (INS) and giving it a clear and precise mandate is a step in the right direction. Accuracy and reliability suffer from the weakness of data sources, notably in national...

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Dominican Republic; Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes: Data Module, Response by the Authorities, Detailed Assessments Using the Data Quality Assessment Framework (DQAF)

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006

The Dominican Republic has been working with the IMF to become a participant in the General Data Dissemination System, and already meets many of the recommendations and some of the encouraged categories for dissemination of macroeconomic statistics. The Dominican Republic has a statistical...

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A Bayesian approach for clustered longitudinal ordinal outcome with nonignorable missing data : evaluation of an asthma education program

Kaciroti, Niko A.; Raghunathan, Trivellore; Schork, M. … - In: Journal of the American Statistical Association : JASA 101 (2006), pp. 435-446

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Der Einsatz von Missing Data Techniken in der Arbeitsmarktforschung des IAB

Rässler, Susanne - In: Allgemeines statistisches Archiv : AStA ; journal of … 90 (2006) 4, pp. 527-552

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Missing data methods in official statistics in the United Kingdom : some recent developments

Durrant, Gabriele B. - In: Allgemeines statistisches Archiv : AStA ; journal of … 90 (2006) 4, pp. 577-593

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Should a Normal Imputation Model be Modified to Impute Skewed Variables?

Hippel, Paul T. von - In: Sociological Methods & Research 42 (2013) 1, pp. 105-138

Researchers often impute continuous variables under an assumption of normalityâ€“yet many incomplete variables are skewed. We find that imputing skewed continuous variables under a normal model can lead to bias. The bias is usually mild for popular estimands such as means, standard...

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The Allocation of Time in Sleep: a Social Network Model with Sampled Data

Liu, Xiaodong; Patacchini, Eleonora; Rainone, Edoardo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

We analyze peer e¤ects in sleeping behavior using a representative sample of U.S. teenagers from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health. The sampling design of the survey causes the conventional 2SLS estimator to be inconsistent. We extend the NLS estimator in Wang and Lee...

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Little's test of missing completely at random

Li, Cheng - In: Stata Journal 13 (2013) 4, pp. 795-809

In missing-data analysis, Little's test (1988, Journal of the American Statistical Association 83: 1198–1202) is useful …

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