Missing at random: a stochastic process perspective
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Abstract We offer a natural and extensible measure-theoretic treatment of missingness at random. Within the standard missing data framework, we give a novel characterization of the observed data as a stopping-set sigma algebra. We demonstrate that the usual missingness at random conditions are equivalent to requiring particular stochastic processes to be adapted to a set-indexed filtration. These measurability conditions ensure the usual factorization of likelihood ratios. We illustrate how the theory extends easily to incorporate explanatory variables, to describe longitudinal data in continuous time, and to admit more general coarsening of observations.
2019 ◽
Vol 2019
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pp. 1-12
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2010 ◽
Vol 42
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pp. 268-291
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2013 ◽
Vol 2013
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pp. 1-13
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