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. 2022 Feb 1;44(2):897–923. doi: 10.1007/s11357-021-00489-w

Table 2.

Imputation model summary

Name Model(s) MI1? Note
RI2 No Imputed gated as 03
Ignore Row-mean4 No Typical approach
Ignore (weighted)5 Row-mean4 No Linear weights
Ignore20 Row-mean4 No 20% missingness cut
RF RF No 100 trees
kNN kNN No
MICE Default PMM/logreg6 Yes
MICE CART CART Yes 1 tree
MICE CART+Aux CART Yes 100 auxiliary variables
MICE RF RF Yes 10 trees

1 MI, multiple imputations

2 RI, rule-based imputation

3 Gated variables were PFQ, RXD and VIQ blocks (Supplemental Table SV)

4 Mean value of the available deficit data for each individual

5 Results in Supplemental

6 PMM for continuous (lab) variables, logreg for ordinal/binary (self-reported) variables