Hotdeck Imputation
Related Terms:
Colddeck Imputation
;
Substitution Imputation
An imputation approach that uses 'donor' responses from units with similar characteristics and substitutes these responses for missing values. Donors may be selected at random from a pool of observations with a similar set of characteristics (e.g. age, sex, and occupation).
Further Reading
Little, R. and D.B. Rubin. 2002.
Statistical Analysis with Missing Data
, Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc..
Statistics Canada. Imputation 2006. Available at
http://www.statcan.ca/english/edu/power/ch3/imputation/imputation.htm
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Groves, R. et al. 2004.
Survey Methodology
, Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc..