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JOURNAL ARTICLE
RESEARCH SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.
REVIEW
Handling missing data in nursing research with multiple imputation.
Nursing Research 2001 November
BACKGROUND: In the data analysis phase of research, missing values present a challenge to nurse investigators. Common approaches for addressing missing data generally include complete-case analysis, available-case analysis, and single-value imputation methods. These methods have been the subject of increasing criticism with respect to their tendency to underestimate standard errors, overstate statistical significance, and introduce bias.
OBJECTIVES: This article reviews the limitations of standard approaches for handling missing data, and suggests multiple imputation is a useful method for nursing research.
METHOD: Secondary analysis was conducted to examine the effect of a public policy on the health of women using a data set that had a large degree and complex patterns of missing data.
DISCUSSION: In the example, accommodation of the incomplete data was critical to making valid inferences; however, complete-case, available-case, or single imputation could not be defended as an adequate method for dealing with the missing data patterns. Alternative methods for dealing with incomplete data were sought, and a multiple imputation approach was selected given the missing data pattern. Nurse researchers confronting similar complex patterns of missing data may find multiple imputation a useful procedure for conducting data analysis and avoiding the bias associated with other methods of handling missing data.
OBJECTIVES: This article reviews the limitations of standard approaches for handling missing data, and suggests multiple imputation is a useful method for nursing research.
METHOD: Secondary analysis was conducted to examine the effect of a public policy on the health of women using a data set that had a large degree and complex patterns of missing data.
DISCUSSION: In the example, accommodation of the incomplete data was critical to making valid inferences; however, complete-case, available-case, or single imputation could not be defended as an adequate method for dealing with the missing data patterns. Alternative methods for dealing with incomplete data were sought, and a multiple imputation approach was selected given the missing data pattern. Nurse researchers confronting similar complex patterns of missing data may find multiple imputation a useful procedure for conducting data analysis and avoiding the bias associated with other methods of handling missing data.
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