In missing-data analysis, Little's test (1988, Journal of the American Statistical Association 83: 1198–1202) is useful for testing the assumption of missing completely at random for multivariate, partially observed quantitative data. I introduce the mcartest command, which implements Little's...

Incomplete data is a common complication in applied research. In this study, we use simulation to compare two approaches to the multiple imputation of a continuous predictor: multiple imputation through chained equations and multivariate normal imputation. This study extends earlier work by...

Clustered data arise in many settings, particularly within the social and biomedical sciences. For example, multiple-source reports are commonly collected in child and adolescent psychiatric epidemiologic studies where researchers use various informants (for instance, parents and adolescents) to...

Our new command midiagplots makes diagnostic plots for multiple imputations created by mi impute. The plots compare the distribution of the imputed values with that of the observed values so that problems with the imputation model can be corrected before the imputed data are analyzed. We include...

Multiple-source data are often collected to provide better information of some underlying construct that is difficult to measure or likely to be missing. In this article, we describe regression-based methods for analyzing multiple-source data in Stata. We use data from the BROMS Cohort Study, a...

The Skillings-Mack statistic (Skillings and Mack, 1981, Technometrics 23: 171 – 177) is a general Friedman-type statistic that can be used in almost any block design with an arbitrary missing-data structure. The missing data can be either missing by design, for example, an incomplete block...

We present an update of mim, a program for managing multiply im- puted datasets and performing inference (estimating parameters) using Rubin’s rules for combining estimates from imputed datasets. The new features of particular importance are an option for estimating the Monte Carlo error (due...

Many studies in various research areas have designs that involve repeated measurements over time of a continuous variable across a group of subjects. A frequent and serious problem in such studies is the occurrence of missing data. In many cases, missing data are caused by an event that leads to...

This article describes a substantial update to mvis, which brings it more closely in line with the feature set of S. van Buuren and C. G. M. Oudshoorn’s implementation of the MICE system in R and S-PLUS (for details, see http://www.multiple-imputation.com). To make a clear distinction from...

A new set of tools is described for performing analyses of an ensemble of datasets that includes multiple copies of the original data with imputations of missing values, as required for the method of multiple imputation. The tools replace those originally developed by the authors. They are based...