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Ordinal scales often generate scores with skewed data distributions.
"We don't want a federal agency coming out with skewed data," he said.
Bootstrapped confidence intervals may, therefore, be asymmetric and be better able to deal with skewed data.
The bootstrap's main advantage is in dealing with skewed data, which often characterise patient costs.
Log transformation was applied for variables with skewed data distribution in all comparisons.
Disadvantages of SEMs that have been previously noted include potentially large sample size requirements and potential problems with skewed data.
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From Figure 2 with the skewed data, our proposed method (9) makes a slightly biased estimate with the relative errors about 5% of the true sample standard deviation.
This confirmed the results from Faris et al [ 15] that with incomplete skewed data, MICE-PMM would be preferred to other MI Markov Chain Monte Carlo type approaches.
There is a wide range of transformations that can be used in this context [ 2], but the most commonly used with positively skewed data is the logarithmic transformation.
From this simulation study, with incomplete skewed data, MI using MICE-PMM without transformations produced precise unproblematic estimates [ 12] within the allowable 10% accuracy with up to 25% missingness, but would not be recommended with 50% or more missingness for any missing data mechanism.
"They have a really cool approach…but the problem I see with that is that you're dealing with an inherently skewed data set," he says.
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