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About Summary Statistics
Algorithms and Interfaces in Summary Statistics
Common Usage Model of Summary Statistics Algorithms
Processing Data in Blocks
Detecting Outliers in Datasets
Dealing with Missing Observations
Computing Quantiles for Streaming Data
Bibliography
Estimating Raw and Central Moments and Sums, Skewness, Excess Kurtosis, Variation, and Variance-Covariance/Correlation/Cross-Product Matrix
Computing Median Absolute Deviation
Computing Mean Absolute Deviation
Computing Minimum/Maximum Values
Calculating Order Statistics
Estimating Quantiles
Estimating a Pooled/Group Variance-Covariance Matrices/Means
Estimating a Partial Variance-Covariance Matrix
Performing Robust Estimation of a Variance-Covariance Matrix
Detecting Multivariate Outliers
Handling Missing Values in Matrices of Observations
Parameterizing a Correlation Matrix
Sorting an Observation Matrix
Basic Assumptions for the MI Method
The MI method is provided under the following assumptions:
The base model for the Summary Statistics version of MI is a multivariate normal distribution with parameters (μ, Σ) where
μ is a vector of means.
Σ is a variance-covariance matrix.
Prior distribution of μ is a conditionally-multivariate Gaussian given Σ with parameters μ0∈R7 and τ-1Σ, where τ is a positive constant. The variance-covariance matrix Σ follows the inverted-Wishart distribution for fixed parameters m ≥ p and a positive-definite matrix Λ.
Data points are Missed At Random (MAR).
The strict definition of this and other mechanisms supporting missing values are available in [Rubin1987].
Parent topic: Handling Missing Values in Matrices of Observations