Asymptotic Comparison of Missing Data Procedures for Estimating Factor Loadings
- 1 June 1983
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Psychometrika
- Vol. 48 (2) , 269-291
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02294022
Abstract
Large sample properties of four methods of handling multivariate missing data are compared. The criterion for comparison is how well the loadings from a single factor model can be estimated. It is shown that efficiencies of the methods depend on the pattern or arrangement of missing data, and an evaluation study is used to generate predictive efficiency equations to guide one's choice of an estimating procedure. A simple regression-type estimator is introduced which shows high efficiency relative to the maximum likelihood method over a large range of patterns and covariance matrices.Keywords
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