Conference
2 days of conferences 18-19 June. Posters will be presented during the 2 days of the conference with a special animated poster session the 18 June evening during the reception. Pre-conference tutorials 17 June.
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June 18, 2015|June 19, 2015|Tutorials|
14H00
Handling missing data in R with MICE
Gerko Vink and Stefan van Buuren
Multiple imputation (Rubin 1987, 1996) is a recommended method for complex incomplete data problems. Two general approaches for imputing multivariate data have emerged: joint modeling (JM) and fully conditional specification (FCS) (van Buuren 2007). Multivariate Imputation by Chained Equations (MICE) is the name of software for imputing incomplete multivariate data by FCS which will be presented in this tutorial.
Topics will include: concise theory on multiple imputation - a description of how the algorithm in MICE works - specification of the imputation model - sensitivity analysis under MNAR - interacting with other software
Prerequisites: elementary knowledge of general statistical concepts and (linear) statistical models is assumed. Moreover, basic programming in R is useful.
16h00-16h30
Coffee break
16h30
Model-based clustering/imputation with missing/binned/mixed data using the new software MixComp
Christophe Biernacki - slides
The "Big Data" paradigm involves large and complex data sets. Complexity includes both variety (mixed data: continuous and/or categorical and/or ordinal and/or functional...) and missing, or partially missing (binned), items. Clustering is a suitable response for volume but it needs also to deal with complexity, especially as volume promotes complexity emergence.
Model-based clustering has demonstrated many theoretical and practical successes (McLachlan 2000), including multivariate mixed data with conditional (Biernacki 2013) or without conditional independence (Marbac et al. 2014). In addition, this full generative design allows to straightforwardly handle missing or binned data (McLachlan 2000; Biernacki 2007). Model estimation can also be performed by simple EM-like algorithms, as the SEM one (Celeux and Diebolt 1985).
MixComp is a new R software, written in C++, implementing model-based clustering for multivariate missing/binned/mixed data under the conditional independence assumption (Goodman 1974). Current implemented mixed data are continuous (Gaussian), categorical (multinomial) and integer (Poisson) ones. However, architecture of MixComp is designed for incremental insertion of new kinds of data (ordinal, ranks, functional...) and related models.
Currently, MixComp is not freely available as an R package but will be soon freely available through a specific web interface. Beyond its clustering task, it allows also to perform imputation of missing/binned data (with associated confidence intervals) by using the mixture model ability for density estimation as well.
Topics will include: mixture models - conditional independence - SEM algorithm - model selection criteria
Prerequisites: elementary knowledge of general statistical concepts, of mixture models, of EM algorithm and of standard model selection criteria is assumed. Moreover, basic programming in R is useful.