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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2023

Empirical Comparison of Imputation Methods for Multivariate Missing Data in Public Health.

Steven Pan, Sixia Chen

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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Steven PanDepartment of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, 801 NE 13th St, Oklahoma City, OK 73104, USA.
Sixia ChenDepartment of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, 801 NE 13th St, Oklahoma City, OK 73104, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5082-281X

Funding

Tracking and Evaluation CoreU54GM104938 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HLTH SCIENCES CTR · PI Valerie Williams · 2013 to 2026
$68.2M
Tissue Pathology Shared ResourceP30CA225520 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HLTH SCIENCES CTR · PI Michael S. Businelle · 2018 to 2026
$27.1M
Improving the representativeness of American Indian Tribal Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (TBRFSS) by machine learning and propensity score based data integration approach A1R21MD014658 · NIMHD · UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HLTH SCIENCES CTR · PI CHEN, SIXIA, SNIDER, CUYLER · 2020 to 2021
$225k
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA225520NIGMS NIH HHS U54 GM104938NIMHD NIH HHS R21 MD014658
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Abstract

Sample estimates derived from data with missing values may be unreliable and may negatively impact the inferences that researchers make about the underlying population due to nonresponse bias. As a result, imputation is often preferred to listwise deletion in handling multivariate missing data. In this study, we compared three popular imputation methods: sequential multiple imputation, fractional hot-deck imputation, and generalized efficient regression-based imputation with latent processes for handling multivariate missingness under different missing patterns by conducting descriptive and regression analyses on the imputed data and seeing how the estimates differ from those generated from the full sample. Limited Monte Carlo simulation results by using the National Health Nutrition and Examination Survey and Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System are presented to demonstrate the effect of each imputation method on reducing bias and increasing efficiency for the parameter estimate of interest for that particular incomplete variable. Although these three methods did not always outperform listwise deletion in our simulated missing patterns, they improved many descriptive and regression estimates when used to impute all incomplete variables at once.

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Public HealthResearch DesignBiasComputer SimulationSurveys and Questionnairesimputationmultivariate missingnessnonresponse biaspublic health data

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PMID36674279
PMCPMC9864541

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