Chapter17
Missing Data and Complex Survey Designs
In this chaptermissingness mechanisms at two levels; what maximum likelihood does with missing outcomes; missing predictors and the congeniality of imputation and analysis models; multilevel multiple imputation by joint modeling, chained equations, and substantive-model-compatible methods, with a TIMSS example and a simulation; sensitivity to data missing not at random; complex survey designs; sampling weights in multilevel models, with a simulation; plausible values; reporting.
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Cite this bookYu, H.-T. (2026). Multilevel modeling for psychology and the social sciences: Models, graphs, and practice (Web ed.). Chapter 17.