Item nonresponse is often dealt with through imputation. Marginal imputation, which consists of treating separately each variable requiring imputation, generally leads to biased estimators of parameters (e.g., coefficients of correlation) measuring relationships between variables. Shao and Wang...

A special type of modelling of interaction is investigated in the framework of two-way analysis of variance models for homologous factors. Factors are said to be homologous when their levels are in a meaningful one-to-one relationship, which arise in a wide variety of contexts, as recalled by...