Estimation of statistical parameters from multivariate data results in wasted information, if units with incomplete data are rejected entirely, and perhaps in inconsistencies in the ...

Joseph G. Ibrahim, Stuart R. Lipsitz, Nick Horton, Using Auxiliary Data for Parameter Estimation with Non-Ignorably Missing Outcomes, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied ...

When data goes missing, standard statistical tools, like taking averages, are no longer useful. “We cannot calculate with missing data, just as we can’t divide by zero,” said Stef van Buuren, the ...