Understanding and using time series analyses in addiction research

E Beard, J Marsden, J Brown, I Tombor, J Stapleton… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Time series analyses are statistical methods used to assess trends in repeated
measurements taken at regular intervals and their associations with other trends or events …

missMDA: a package for handling missing values in multivariate data analysis

J Josse, F Husson - Journal of statistical software, 2016 - jstatsoft.org
We present the R package missMDA which performs principal component methods on
incomplete data sets, aiming to obtain scores, loadings and graphical representations …

Imputation with the R Package VIM

A Kowarik, M Templ - Journal of statistical software, 2016 - jstatsoft.org
Abstract The package VIM (Templ, Alfons, Kowarik, and Prantner 2016) is developed to
explore and analyze the structure of missing values in data using visualization methods, to …

mice: Multivariate imputation by chained equations in R

S Van Buuren, K Groothuis-Oudshoorn - Journal of statistical software, 2011 - jstatsoft.org
The R package mice imputes incomplete multivariate data by chained equations. The
software mice 1.0 appeared in the year 2000 as an S-PLUS library, and in 2001 as an R …

Imputation of missing data in life‐history trait datasets: which approach performs the best?

C Penone, AD Davidson, KT Shoemaker… - Methods in Ecology …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Despite efforts in data collection, missing values are commonplace in life‐history trait
databases. Because these values typically are not missing randomly, the common practice …

Comparison of imputation methods for missing laboratory data in medicine

AK Waljee, A Mukherjee, AG Singal, Y Zhang… - BMJ open, 2013 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives Missing laboratory data is a common issue, but the optimal method of imputation
of missing values has not been determined. The aims of our study were to compare the …

Model checking in multiple imputation: an overview and case study

CD Nguyen, JB Carlin, KJ Lee - Emerging themes in epidemiology, 2017 - Springer
Background Multiple imputation has become very popular as a general-purpose method for
handling missing data. The validity of multiple-imputation-based analyses relies on the use …

Reporting and handling of missing data in predictive research for prevalent undiagnosed type 2 diabetes mellitus: a systematic review

KL Masconi, TE Matsha, JB Echouffo-Tcheugui… - EPMA Journal, 2015 - Springer
Missing values are common in health research and omitting participants with missing data
often leads to loss of statistical power, biased estimates and, consequently, inaccurate …

Iterative stepwise regression imputation using standard and robust methods

M Templ, A Kowarik, P Filzmoser - Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 2011 - Elsevier
Imputation of missing values is one of the major tasks for data pre-processing in many areas.
Whenever imputation of data from official statistics comes into mind, several (additional) …

Improved methods for the imputation of missing data by nearest neighbor methods

G Tutz, S Ramzan - Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 2015 - Elsevier
Missing data raise problems in almost all fields of quantitative research. A useful
nonparametric procedure is the nearest neighbor imputation method. Improved versions of …