B5SPSSBeginnerAbout 30 min to complete
Missing data
You cannot choose a method before you have a view about the mechanism. Almost every bad decision about missing data is question 3 answered without question 2.
Slides · Dataset
About 30 minutes to complete
Enrol to open the slides and download the data.
By the end of it
- Tell system-missing from user-missing, and declare both
- Say which of MCAR, MAR and MNAR your data plausibly is
- Choose between deletion and imputation, and know what each costs
- Write the four sentences your methods section needs
The dataset
Antenatal care and birth outcome — Sigma teaching dataset
A teaching dataset of 300 cases, generated from a fixed seed so every figure in the module reproduces exactly.
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