A contribution on the nature and treatment of missing data in large market surveys

Nonresponse (or missing data) is often encountered in large-scale surveys. To enable the behavioural analysis of these data sets, statistical treatments are commonly applied to complete or remove these data. However, the correctness of such procedures critically depends on the nature of the underlyi...

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Main Authors: Madden, Gary, Vicente, M., Rappoport, P., Banerjee, A.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Routledge 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/38048
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author Madden, Gary
Vicente, M.
Rappoport, P.
Banerjee, A.
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Vicente, M.
Rappoport, P.
Banerjee, A.
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description Nonresponse (or missing data) is often encountered in large-scale surveys. To enable the behavioural analysis of these data sets, statistical treatments are commonly applied to complete or remove these data. However, the correctness of such procedures critically depends on the nature of the underlying missingness generation process. Clearly, the efficacy of applying either case deletion or imputation procedures rests on the unknown missingness generation mechanism. The contribution of this article is twofold. The study is the first to propose a simple sequential method to attempt to identify the form of missingness. Second, the effectiveness of the tests is assessed by generating (experimentally) nine missing data sets by imposed missing completely at random, missing at random and not missing at random processes, with data removed.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-380482017-09-13T15:36:42Z A contribution on the nature and treatment of missing data in large market surveys Madden, Gary Vicente, M. Rappoport, P. Banerjee, A. Nonresponse (or missing data) is often encountered in large-scale surveys. To enable the behavioural analysis of these data sets, statistical treatments are commonly applied to complete or remove these data. However, the correctness of such procedures critically depends on the nature of the underlying missingness generation process. Clearly, the efficacy of applying either case deletion or imputation procedures rests on the unknown missingness generation mechanism. The contribution of this article is twofold. The study is the first to propose a simple sequential method to attempt to identify the form of missingness. Second, the effectiveness of the tests is assessed by generating (experimentally) nine missing data sets by imposed missing completely at random, missing at random and not missing at random processes, with data removed. 2016 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/38048 10.1080/00036846.2016.1234699 Routledge restricted
spellingShingle Madden, Gary
Vicente, M.
Rappoport, P.
Banerjee, A.
A contribution on the nature and treatment of missing data in large market surveys
title A contribution on the nature and treatment of missing data in large market surveys
title_full A contribution on the nature and treatment of missing data in large market surveys
title_fullStr A contribution on the nature and treatment of missing data in large market surveys
title_full_unstemmed A contribution on the nature and treatment of missing data in large market surveys
title_short A contribution on the nature and treatment of missing data in large market surveys
title_sort contribution on the nature and treatment of missing data in large market surveys
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/38048