A method for increasing the robustness of multiple imputation

Rhian M. Daniel and Michael G. Kenward

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 2012, vol. 56, issue 6, 1624-1643

Abstract: Missing data are common wherever statistical methods are applied in practice. They present a problem in that they require that additional assumptions be made about the mechanism leading to the incompleteness of the data. By incorporating two models for the missing data process, doubly robust (DR) weighting-based methods offer some protection against misspecification bias since inferences are valid when at least one of the two models is correctly specified. The balance between robustness, efficiency and analytical complexity is one which is difficult to strike, resulting in a split between the likelihood and multiple imputation (MI) school on one hand and the weighting and DR school on the other. An extension of MI is proposed that, in certain settings, can be shown to give rise to DR estimators. It is conjectured that this additional robustness holds more generally, as demonstrated using simulation studies. The method is applied to data from the RECORD study, a clinical trial comparing anti-glycaemic combination therapies in type II diabetes patients.

Keywords: Doubly robust estimation; Missing data; Multiple imputation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2011.10.006

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