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Comment
. 2024 Jan;66(1):e2300085.
doi: 10.1002/bimj.202300085. Epub 2023 Oct 12.

Comment on Oberman & Vink: Should we fix or simulate the complete data in simulation studies evaluating missing data methods?

Tim P Morris  1 , Ian R White  1 , Suzie Cro  2 , Jonathan W Bartlett  3 , James R Carpenter  1   3 , Tra My Pham  1
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Comment on Oberman & Vink: Should we fix or simulate the complete data in simulation studies evaluating missing data methods?

Tim P Morris et al. Biom J. 2024 Jan.

Abstract

For simulation studies that evaluate methods of handling missing data, we argue that generating partially observed data by fixing the complete data and repeatedly simulating the missingness indicators is a superficially attractive idea but only rarely appropriate to use.

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