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STATISTICAL PRACTICE

Bias Introduced by Rounding in Multiple Imputation for Ordered Categorical Variables

Yan XiaDepartment of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems, College of Education, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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Yanyun YangDepartment of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems, College of Education, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
Pages 358-364 | Received 01 Nov 2014, Published online: 21 Nov 2016

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