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Integrating Reported Reasons for Missingness in Pretest-Posttest Research Designs
Abstract
Missing data is a common challenge to any researcher in almost any field of research. In particular, human participants in research do not always respond or return for assessments leaving the researcher to rely on missing data methods. The most common methods (i.e., Multiple Imputation and Full Information Maximum Likelihood) assume that the missingness falls under the MAR mechanism (Enders, 2010). The National Research Council (2010) made recommendations for addressing missing data including recording the reason participants dropout of a study whenever possible. Beyond making a case for MAR, it is unclear how a researcher would go about integrating these reasons for dropout into their statistical analysis. The purpose of this study is to develop and evaluate a method to incorporate these reasons for dropout. In order to accomplish this, two studies were conducted. In Study 1, a clinical trial that recorded the reasons for dropout was evaluated using a sensitivity analysis to compare estimates of a treatment effect. In Study 2, a simulation study was performed that included the reason for dropout to compare the proposed method with the standard approaches to missingness.
Subject Area
Educational psychology|Psychology|Information science|Statistics
Recommended Citation
Dizona, Paul J, "Integrating Reported Reasons for Missingness in Pretest-Posttest Research Designs" (2022). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI29215837.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI29215837