Handling Missing Data in the Modeling of Intensive Longitudinal Data

Linying Ji, Sy Miin Chow, Alice C. Schermerhorn, Nicholas C. Jacobson, E. Mark Cummings

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Abstract

Myriad approaches for handling missing data exist in the literature. However, few studies have investigated the tenability and utility of these approaches when used with intensive longitudinal data. In this study, we compare and illustrate two multiple imputation (MI) approaches for coping with missingness in fitting multivariate time-series models under different missing data mechanisms. They include a full MI approach, in which all dependent variables and covariates are imputed simultaneously, and a partial MI approach, in which missing covariates are imputed with MI, whereas missingness in the dependent variables is handled via full information maximum likelihood estimation. We found that under correctly specified models, partial MI produces the best overall estimation results. We discuss the strengths and limitations of the two MI approaches, and demonstrate their use with an empirical data set in which children’s influences on parental conflicts are modeled as covariates over the course of 15 days (Schermerhorn, Chow, & Cummings, 2010).

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)715-736
Number of pages22
JournalStructural Equation Modeling
Volume25
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 3 2018

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Decision Sciences
  • General Economics, Econometrics and Finance
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Modeling and Simulation

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