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Postgraduate Course: Incomplete Data Analysis (MATH11185)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Mathematics CollegeCollege of Science and Engineering
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryThis course is for MSc students who already have some undergraduate level background in statistics.
The course focuses on different techniques for dealing with missing data within a formal statistical framework.
Course description Topics to be covered include:
- types of missingness;
- single imputation;
- likelihood based approaches for dealing with missing data (including the EM algorithm); and
- multiple imputation.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Students MUST have passed: Statistical Methodology (MATH10095)
Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2022/23, Not available to visiting students (SS1) Quota:  None
Course Start Semester 2
Course Start Date 16/01/2023
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 100 ( Lecture Hours 22, Seminar/Tutorial Hours 5, Summative Assessment Hours 2, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 69 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) Coursework 100%
Feedback Individual written feedback.
No Exam Information
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Demonstrate an understanding of the different types of missingness.
  2. Demonstrate an understand different statistical techniques for dealing with missing data and associated advantages and disadvantages.
  3. Demonstrate an ability to fit models to data with missing observations.
  4. Demonstrate an ability to interpret the output from statistical analyses.
  5. Demonstrate an ability to use the R statistical software to implement statistical procedures that can handle missing values.
Reading List
Statistical Analysis with Missing Data. Little and Rubin. Wiley.

Applied Missing Data Analysis. Enders. Guilford Press.
Applied Multiple Imputation: Advantages, Pitfalls, New Developments, and Applications in R. Kleinke, Reinecke, Salfran and Spiess. Springer.
Flexible Imputation of Missing Data. Van Buuren. Chapman & Hall/CRC Press.
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
Special Arrangements These Postgraduate Taught courses may be taken by Undergraduate students *without* requiring a concession (NB. students on Postgraduate taught programmes are given priority in the allocation of places). For all other Postgraduate Taught courses the student and/or Personal Tutor must seek a concession.
KeywordsIDAn,Data Analysis,Statistics
Contacts
Course organiserDr Miguel Bras De Carvalho
Tel: (0131 6)50 4877
Email: Miguel.deCarvalho@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Gemma Aitchison
Tel: (0131 6)50 9268
Email: Gemma.Aitchison@ed.ac.uk
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