Statistical Analysis with Missing Data, 3rd Edition

  • 7h 59m
  • Donald B. Rubin, Roderick J. A. Little
  • John Wiley & Sons (US)
  • 2020

An up-to-date, comprehensive treatment of a classic text on missing data in statistics

The topic of missing data has gained considerable attention in recent decades. This new edition by two acknowledged experts on the subject offers an up-to-date account of practical methodology for handling missing data problems. Blending theory and application, authors Roderick Little and Donald Rubin review historical approaches to the subject and describe simple methods for multivariate analysis with missing values. They then provide a coherent theory for analysis of problems based on likelihoods derived from statistical models for the data and the missing data mechanism, and then they apply the theory to a wide range of important missing data problems.

Statistical Analysis with Missing Data, Third Edition starts by introducing readers to the subject and approaches toward solving it. It looks at the patterns and mechanisms that create the missing data, as well as a taxonomy of missing data. It then goes on to examine missing data in experiments, before discussing complete-case and available-case analysis, including weighting methods. The new edition expands its coverage to include recent work on topics such as nonresponse in sample surveys, causal inference, diagnostic methods, and sensitivity analysis, among a host of other topics.

  • An updated “classic” written by renowned authorities on the subject
  • Features over 150 exercises (including many new ones)
  • Covers recent work on important methods like multiple imputation, robust alternatives to weighting, and Bayesian methods
  • Revises previous topics based on past student feedback and class experience
  • Contains an updated and expanded bibliography

The authors were awarded The Karl Pearson Prize in 2017 by the International Statistical Institute, for a research contribution that has had profound influence on statistical theory, methodology or applications. Their work "has been no less than defining and transforming." (ISI)

Statistical Analysis with Missing Data, Third Edition is an ideal textbook for upper undergraduate and/or beginning graduate level students of the subject. It is also an excellent source of information for applied statisticians and practitioners in government and industry.

About the Authors

Roderick J. A. Little, PhD., is Richard D. Remington Distinguished University Professor of Biostatistics, Professor of Statistics, and Research Professor, Institute for Social Research, at the University of Michigan.

Donald B. Rubin, PhD., is Professor, Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University; Murray Shusterman Senior Research Fellow, Department of Statistical Science, Fox School of Business at Temple University; and Professor Emeritus, Harvard University.

In this Book

  • Introduction
  • Missing Data in Experiments
  • Complete-Case and Available-Case Analysis, Including Weighting Methods
  • Single Imputation Methods
  • Accounting for Uncertainty from Missing Data
  • Theory of Inference Based on the Likelihood Function
  • Factored Likelihood Methods When the Missingness Mechanism is Ignorable
  • Maximum Likelihood for General Patterns of Missing Data—Introduction and Theory with Ignorable Nonresponse
  • Large-Sample Inference Based on Maximum Likelihood Estimates
  • Bayes and Multiple Imputation
  • Multivariate Normal Examples, Ignoring the Missingness Mechanism
  • Models for Robust Estimation
  • Models for Partially Classified Contingency Tables, Ignoring the Missingness Mechanism
  • Mixed Normal and Nonnormal Data with Missing Values, Ignoring the Missingness Mechanism
  • Missing Not at Random Models
  • References
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