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A stochastic variant of the EM algorithm to fit mixed (discrete and continuous) longitudinal data with nonignorable missingness

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  • Abdallah S. A. Yaseen
  • Ahmed M. Gad

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In longitudinal studies data are collected on the same set of units for more than one occasion. In medical studies it is very common to have mixed Poisson and continuous longitudinal data. In such studies, for different reasons, some intended measurements might not be available resulting in a missing data setting. When the probability of missingness is related to the missing values, the missingness mechanism is termed nonrandom. The stochastic expectation-maximization (SEM) algorithm and the parametric fractional imputation (PFI) method are developed to handle nonrandom missingness in mixed discrete and continuous longitudinal data assuming different covariance structures for the continuous outcome. The proposed techniques are evaluated using simulation studies. Also, the proposed techniques are applied to the interstitial cystitis data base (ICDB) data.

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  • Abdallah S. A. Yaseen & Ahmed M. Gad, 2020. "A stochastic variant of the EM algorithm to fit mixed (discrete and continuous) longitudinal data with nonignorable missingness," Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 49(18), pages 4446-4467, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:lstaxx:v:49:y:2020:i:18:p:4446-4467
    DOI: 10.1080/03610926.2019.1601223
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