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COURSE:
PRACTICAL USE OF MULTIPLE IMPUTATION TO HANDLE MISSING DATA
MRC BIOSTATISTICS UNIT, CAMBRIDGE
22nd-23rd May 2008
Lecturers: Ian White, Patrick Royston and Angela Wood
See http://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/MIcourse/
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COURSE AIMS
* Explain the problems of missing data and the need for methods
such as multiple imputation
* Explain how multiple imputation works, with a focus on imputation
by chained equations (ICE)
* Explain how multiply imputed data are analysed
* Enable participants to analyse data by multiple imputation in
Stata using the ice and mim commands
* Give participants an awareness of the assumptions underlying
multiple imputation and of its limitations.
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TARGET AUDIENCE
* Researchers needing to analyse incomplete data
* Should be familiar with running Stata from the command line (i.e.
not using menus) at least to the level of fitting a regression model to
complete data
* No prior knowledge of multiple imputation is assumed
* Participants should bring their own laptop computer with Stata
version 9 or later.
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COSTS
Student £100
Public sector £200
Commercial £400
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