MMDai 1.4.0
Multivariate Multinomial Distribution Approximation and Imputation for Incomplete Data
Released Dec 7, 2017 by Chaojie Wang
This package cannot yet be used with Renjin it depends on other packages which are not available:
DirichletReg 0.6-3
Dependencies
DirichletReg 0.6-3
Missingness in categorical data is a common problem in various real applications. Traditional approaches either utilize only the complete observations or impute the missing data by some ad hoc methods rather than the true conditional distribution of the missing data, thus losing or distorting the rich information in the partial observations. This package develops a Bayesian nonparametric approach, the Dirichlet Process Mixture of Collapsed Product-Multinomials (DPMCPM, Wang et al. (2017) ), to model the full data jointly and compute the model efficiently. By fitting an infinite mixture of product-multinomial distributions, DPMCPM is applicable for any categorical data regardless of the true distribution, which may contain complex association among variables. Under the framework of latent class analysis, we show that DPMCPM can model general missing mechanisms by creating an extra category to denote missingness, which implicitly integrates out the missing part with regard to their true conditional distribution.
