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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Addict Behav. 2014 Aug 18;29(1):231–236. doi: 10.1037/adb0000015

Table 2.

Contrasting the three scoring approaches using data with simulated missingness among those with complete SRE data (n=516): Correlations of SRE summary scores from the three approaches with SRE summary scores from observed complete data and with “simulated alcohol-effect endorsement.”

1 2 3 4 5
1. Person-mean imputation SRE
 summary scores
1 -- -- -- --
2. Standardized person-mean
 imputation SRE summary scores
.93*** 1 -- -- --
3. Factor-score estimation SRE
 summary scores
.89*** .93*** 1 -- --
4. Observed complete data SRE
summary scores
.91*** .94*** .94*** 1 --
5. Simulated alcohol-effect
endorsementa
.28*** .00 .01 .02 1

Note. Only participants who were randomly assigned to have at least one missing score were included (n=228) because participants who were randomly assigned to have no missing scores (n=288) had exactly the same values across the four response-to-alcohol summary scores.

a

This is the number of non-missing items for a given participant, which in this case of simulated missingness was purely a function of the random assignment of different missing data patterns to different participants.

p < .10.

*

p < .05.

**

p < .01.

***

p < .001.