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The main purpose of this paper is a comparison of several imputation methods within the simple additive model ty =f(x) + ε where the independent variable X is affected by missing completely at random. Besides the well-known complete case analysis, mean imputation plus random noise, single imputation and two kinds of nearest neighbor imputations are used. A short introduction to the model, the missing mechanism, the inference, the imputation methods and their implementation is followed by the main focus—the simulation experiment. The methods are compared within the experiment based on the sample mean squared error, estimated variances and estimated biases of f(x) at the knots.
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Nittner, T. The additive model affected by missing completely at random in the covariate. Computational Statistics 19, 261–282 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02892060
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