The Treatment of Missing Values in Logistic Regression

✍ Scribed by Karen Yuen Fung; Barbara A. Wrobel

• Book ID: 102759780
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 657 KB
• Volume: 31
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0323-3847
• DOI: 10.1002/bimj.4710310106

✦ Synopsis

The efficiencies of the estimators in the linear logistic regression model are examined using simulations under six missing value treatments. These treatments use either the maximum likelihood or the discriminant function approach in the estimation of the regression coefficients. Missing values are assumed to occur a t random. The cases of multivariate normal and dichotomoue independent variables are both considered. We found that in general, there is no uniformly best method. However, mean substitution and discriminant function estimation using existing pairs of values for correlations turn out to be favourable for the cases considered.