Model Folding for Data Subject to Nonresponse

Authors:

Paola Sebastiani
Statistics Department
The Open University
Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA
United Kingdom
E-mail: p.sebastiani@open.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (1908) 652359
Fax: +44 (1908) 652140

Marco Ramoni
Knowledge Media Institute
The Open University
Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA
United Kingdom
E-mail: m.ramoni@open.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (1908) 655721
Fax: +44 (1908) 653821

Abstract:

In this paper we introduce a deterministic method to estimate the posterior probability of rival models from data with partially ignorable nonresponse.  The accuracy of the method will be shown via an application to synthetic data.

Keywords:

Missing data, Bayesian model selection, regression models, model folding.

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