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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
Handling Missing Values in Matrices of Observations
Summary Statistics provides the Multiple Imputation (MI) method VSL_SS_METHOD_MI to deal with missing values in a dataset. A typical usage flow is as follows:
In the MI paradigm, replace each missing value with a set of m values predicted from the underlying distribution.
After MI application, analyze each of the m complete datasets producing estimates and standard errors.
Combine the results of the first two steps according to the rules in [Rubin1987] to produce overall estimates and standard errors.
MI approach is integrated into the library as described in [Schafer1997].
Parent topic: Algorithms and Interfaces in Summary Statistics