Theory and Methods: Estimation in Regressive Logistic Regression Analyses of Familial Data with Missing Outcomes

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This paper examines a number of methods of handling missing outcomes in regressive logistic regression modelling of familial binary data, and compares them with an EM algorithm approach via a simulation study. The results indicate that a strategy based on imputation of missing values leads to biased estimates, and that a strategy of excluding incomplete families has a substantial effect on the variability of the parameter estimates. Recommendations are made which depend, amongst other factors, on the amount of missing data and on the availability of software.

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