Research Article

Evaluation of Four Multiple Imputation Methods for Handling Missing Binary Outcome Data in the Presence of an Interaction between a Dummy and a Continuous Variable

Table 3

Comparison of the performance of imputation methods based on the CRs of regression coefficients over 1000 simulations.

VariableMethodMARMCAR
10%20%30%40%50%10%20%30%40%50%

(BMIreal)MCR1.0001.0000.9810.9640.8851.0001.0000.9820.9550.924
MI1.0001.0000.9980.9970.9841.0001.0000.9980.9920.985
MRF1.0001.0001.0000.9980.9861.0001.0001.0000.9980.994
MS0.9960.9670.8260.7020.5560.9970.9530.8500.6740.563
(Betotal)MCR1.0000.9990.9820.9440.9061.0000.9970.9870.9550.901
MI1.0000.9990.9980.9940.9831.0001.0000.9980.9950.986
MRF1.0000.9990.9870.9420.9031.0001.0000.9910.9630.875
MS0.9830.7400.4150.2050.0920.9730.7270.4020.2080.078
(PACS4)MCR1.0000.9960.9650.8930.8341.0000.9970.9870.9610.907
MI1.0001.0000.9980.9910.9871.0000.9990.9990.9980.983
MRF1.0000.9800.9190.7980.6781.0000.9970.9640.9260.850
MS0.8960.5000.2100.0930.0490.9730.6660.3010.1400.046
(PSPS)MCR1.0000.9940.9550.9070.8241.0001.0000.9830.9460.899
MI1.0001.0000.9970.9950.9851.0001.0001.0000.9980.989
MRF1.0000.9800.9200.7890.6761.0000.9990.9700.9040.830
MS0.8930.4890.2050.0880.0420.9780.6480.2950.1100.047
X5 (Gender)MCR1.0000.9990.9950.9810.9591.0000.9990.9900.9790.957
MI1.0001.0000.9980.9970.9891.0001.0000.9990.9960.988
MRF1.0001.0000.9980.9990.9941.0001.0000.9990.9970.992
MS1.0000.9910.9740.9510.9620.9990.9910.9740.9580.924
(BMIreal ∗Gender)MCR1.0000.9970.9290.8220.7121.0000.9960.9460.8340.677
MI1.0001.0000.9990.9980.9901.0000.9990.9990.9870.983
MRF1.0000.9880.8670.7140.5581.0000.9840.9080.7340.545
MS0.9100.4550.1730.0720.0150.9160.4690.1660.0370.014