Multiply Imputing an Outcome Variable

October 12, 2011
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(This article was first published on Carlisle Rainey » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)

Some scholars suggest that multiply imputing an outcome variable is incorrect. I use intuition and simulation to argue that multiply imputing outcomes can drastically improve estimates, even in the case of non-ignorable missingness. Continue reading →

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