Am J Epidemiol 2003; 157:74-84.
Copyright © 2003 by Johns
Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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Multiple Imputation of Baseline Data in the Cardiovascular Health Study
From the Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
Most epidemiologic studies will encounter missing covariate data. Software packages typically used for analyzing data delete any cases with a missing covariate to perform a complete case analysis. The deletion of cases complicates variable selection when different variables are missing on different cases, reduces power, and creates the potential for bias in the resulting estimates. Recently, software has become available for producing multiple imputations of missing data that account for the between-imputation variability. The implementation of the software to impute missing baseline data in the setting of the Cardiovascular Health Study, a large, observational study, is described. Results of exploratory analyses using the imputed data were largely consistent with results using only complete cases, even in a situation where one third of the cases were excluded from the complete case analysis. There were few differences in the exploratory results across three imputations, and the combined results from the multiple imputations were very similar to results from a single imputation. An increase in power was evident and variable selection simplified when using the imputed data sets.
biometry; epidemiologic methods; imputation; missing data; regression analysis
Abbreviations: Abbreviation: NHANES, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
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