Imputation
In: Encyclopedia of Survey Research Methods
Imputation
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412963947.n216
Subject: Survey Research
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Imputation, also called ascription, is a statistical process that statisticians, survey researchers, and other scientists use to replace data that are missing from a data set due to item nonresponse. Researchers do imputation to improve the accuracy of their data sets.
Missing data are a common problem with most databases, and there are several approaches for handling this problem. Imputation fills in missing values, and the resultant completed data set is then analyzed as if it were complete. Multiple imputation is a method for reflecting the added uncertainty due to the fact that imputed values are not actual values, and yet still allow the idea of complete-data methods to analyze each data set completed by imputation. In general, multiple imputation can lead to valid inferences ...
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