Survey Methodology
Multiple imputation of missing values in household data with structural zeros

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Abstract - Article main page
Section 1. Introduction
Section 2. Review of the NDPMPM model
Section 3. Handling missing data using the NDPMPM
Section 4. Strategies for speeding up the MCMC sampler
Section 5. Empirical study
Section 6. Discussion
Acknowledgements
Appendix
References

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