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dc.contributor.authorLucas Onyango A Othuon
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-12T10:29:16Z
dc.date.available2020-08-12T10:29:16Z
dc.date.issued1998
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.maseno.ac.ke/handle/123456789/2039
dc.description.abstractSeveral methods are available for the treatment of missing data. Most of the methods are based on the assumption that data are missing completely at random (MCAR). However, data sets that are MCAR are rare in psycho-educational research. This gives rise to the need for investigating the performance of missing data treatments (MDTs) with non-randomly or systematically missing data, an area that has not received much attention by researchers in the past. In the current simulation study, the performance of four MDTs, namely, mean substitution (MS), pairwise deletion (PW), expectation-maximization method (EM), and regression imputation (RS), was investigated in a linear multiple regression context. Four investigations were conducted involving four predictors under low and high multiple R², and nine predictors under low and high multiple R². In addition, each investigation was conducted under three different sample size conditions (94, 153, and 265). The design factors were missing pattern (2 levels), percent missing (3 levels) and non-normality (4 levels). This design gave rise to 72 treatment conditions. The sampling was replicated one thousand times in each condition. MDTs were evaluated based on accuracy of parameter estimates. In addition, the bias in parameter estimates, and coverage probability of regression coefficients, were computed. The effect of missing pattern, percent missing, and non-normality on absolute error for R² estimate was of practical significance. In the estimation of R², EM was the most accurate under the low R² condition, and PW was the most accurate under the high R² condition. No MDT was …en_US
dc.publisherUniversity of British Columbiaen_US
dc.titleThe accuracy of parameter estimates and coverage probability of population values in regression models upon different treatments of systematically missing dataen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US


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