Missing Value Imputation = Cheating???

QuantFish instructor Dr. Christian Geiser discusses the question of whether missing data imputation is like "cheating." See also references at the very bottom.

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References

Baraldi, A. N., & Enders, C. K. (2010). An introduction to modern missing data analyses. Journal of School Psychology, 48(1), 5-37.

Enders, C. K. (2022). Applied missing data analysis (2nd ed.). New York: Guilford Publications.

Graham, J. W. (2003). Adding missing-data-relevant variables to FIML-based structural equation models. Structural Equation Modeling, 10(1), 80-100.

Schafer, J. L., & Graham, J. W. (2002). Missing data: Our view of the state of the art. Psychological Methods, 7(2), 147–177.

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