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Thank you for your interest in the missing data workshop; ‘Missing data: Analysis and New Thinking on Participant Attrition’, by John Graham, Penn State, on the 31^st of October. The workshop is from 10am – 3pm in the Violet Butler room, 32 Wellington Square, Oxford Ox1 2ER, the Department of Social Policy and Intervention.

John Graham http://bbh.hhdev.psu.edu/directory2/Bio.aspx?id=JohnGraham is the author of a major book and many highly cited papers on missing data

analysis including:

Missing data: Our view of the state of the art. JL Schafer, JW Graham. Psychological Methods, 7, 147 (google scholar cites 5017)

Missing data analysis: Making it work in the real world JW Graham. Annual Review of Psychology, 60, 549 (google scholar cites 1183)

Programme for the day:

10:00-11:15 Lecture: Missing data theory; normal-model multiple imputation (MI)
and maximum likelihood methods.

11:15 –11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:30 Lecture: attrition and nonignorable missingness; reducing the uncertainty about the missing data mechanism under

attrition; assessing attrition bias; reducing attrition bias

12:30-13:00 Lunch

13:00-15:00 Discussion / Q & A where people bring their missing data problems and questions

The final session will be a time to discuss specific problems / queries in relation to missing data issues in your own projects or future projects. Please do email these questions to: [log in to unmask] and copy to [log in to unmask]

Please send them at least 24 hours in advance of the workshop.

We still have a few spaces if you have any colleagues who would be interested in attending.

We look forward to seeing you there and please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any queries,

Best wishes

Thank you so much