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Missing data

& Catch-up

Hina Khalid
Week 7, S2

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Lesson plan
1. Go over questionnaire exercise
2. Missing data
3. Class exercise on research questions and measurement of dependent
and independent variable.
4. Week 8, S1 (Wednesday)
• Sampling
• Gronick. (pg. 89-97)
• Kelsey, et. al. Methods in observational epidemiology (pg. 311-321)
• Presentation
5. Week 8, S2 (Thursday)
• Introduction to regression analysis (Week 10, S1)
• Presentation

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What is missing data?

Types of missing data?


Missing data
Why should we care about missing
data?

Dealing with missing data

• Case deletion
• Average the available items
• Single and multiple imputation

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What does missing data look like in a dataset?

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Class exercise
• Details of activity
• Write down one research question
• Write down the hypothesis
• What is the dependent variable?
• What is the independent variable?
• How will you measure the dependent variable?
• How will you measure the independent variable?
• How can you link what you have above to conceptual and operational definitions?
• Groups
• 9 groups
• 15 minutes for addressing the questions assigned
• 5 minutes for presentation ( per group)

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