Journal of the Iranian Statistical Society

A New Algorithm to Impute the Missing Values in the Multivariate Case

Authors

1 Department of Statistics, Faculty of Science, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran.

2 Department of Statistics, Faculty of Science, University of Qom, Qom, Iran.

3 Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran.

10.52547/jirss.19.2.133

Abstract

There are several methods to make inferences about the parameters of the sampling distribution when we encounter the missing values and the censored data. In this paper, through the order statistics and the projection theorem, a novel algorithm is proposed to impute the missing values in the multivariate case. Then, the performance of this method is investigated through the simulation studies. In an attempt to validate the proposed method and compare it with some other methods a real data is used.

Keywords

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Journal of the Iranian Statistical Society
Volume 19, Issue 2
December 2020
Pages 133-143
  • Receive Date: 23 July 2022
  • Revise Date: 10 May 2024
  • Accept Date: 23 July 2022