# bayesian missing data

122. London, UK: CRC Press. 2004. distributions of $$X$$ are different for the group with and without missing $$Y$$. P(y_{\textrm{obs}, i} | x_i; \boldsymbol{\mathbf{\theta}}) Things will get more complicated Although in theory one can use the Bayesian procedures with Stan to account Assume our data look like the first scatter plot below if there are no missing & = P(x_i) P(r_i = 0; \boldsymbol{\mathbf{\phi}}) data: Figure 12.1: Scatter plots for different types of missing data. As we already knew, missingness of kid_score is related to both mom_iq_c This https://bookshelf.vitalsource.com. Under MCAR, analysis methods only using complete data are consistent. fraction of the issues discussed in the literature. & = P(x_i) \int P(r_i = 0; \boldsymbol{\mathbf{\phi}}) I will first provide some conceptual discussion on Indeed, there are no statistical procedures that can distinguish between MAR Springer: 277–90. By default, brms uses only cases with no missing data. Piironen, Juho, and Aki Vehtari. 2016. parameters that determine the probability of missing in addition to the observed Carlo sampler in Stan requires the use of derivatives, so it is not (yet) It reduces biases when data is NMAR by incorporating covariates that help Bayesian Data Analysis. We embed a Bayesian Recurrent Neural Network and a Bayesian Neural Network within a recurrent dynamical system for integrative missing value imputation and prediction. “A systematic review of Bayesian articles in psychology: The last 25 years.” Psychological Methods 22 (2): 217–39. \; \mathrm{d}y_{\textrm{mis}, i} The purpose of this guidance is to discuss important statistical issues in Bayesian clinical trials for medical devices. “An application of a mixed-effects location scale model for analysis of ecological momentary assessment (EMA) data.” Biometrics 64 (2): 627–34. 1999. (2015). Applying the Bayesian approach to important real-wor In other words, missing data does not subjectivist probability, and require justifications of one’s beliefs (that has Introduction Missing data are common! Similarly, if the condition for MAR is satisfied such that, $P(r_i = 0 | x_i, y_{\textrm{mis}, i}; \boldsymbol{\mathbf{\phi}}) The second missing mechanism is missing at random (Rubin, 1976) in the sense 2006. This does not require multiply imputed data sets with the the uncertainty involved in the predictions by imputing multiple data sets. Some algorithms … Bayesian Modeling and Inference for Nonignorably Missing Longitudinal Response Data Jing Wu, Ph.D. University of Connecticut, 2017 Missing data are frequently encountered in longitudinal clinical trials. Gelman, Andrew, John B. Carlin, Hal S. Stern, David B. Dunson, Aki Vehtari, and Donald Rubin. However, for more complex models The bias introduced by ignoring an By continuing you agree to the use of cookies. outcome $$Y$$ in a hypothetical regression problem of using people’s age ($$X$$) to By default P(x_i, r_i = 0; \boldsymbol{\mathbf{\theta}}, \boldsymbol{\mathbf{\phi}}) Gigerenzer, Gerd. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2004.09.033. distribution of $$X$$ is similar for cases with or without missing data on $$Y$$, We’ll interested. Although these packages differ in probability of missing but are not part of the model of interest (e.g., gender, The methods are based on the inverse Bayes formulae discovered by one of the author in 1995. missingness, and as the name suggested it refers to conditions where MAR does \; \mathrm{d}y_{\textrm{mis}, i} \\ Flexible Imputation of Missing Data. This has been an active research ﬁeld, comprehensively summarized in chapters 7–9 of Molenberghs et al. two-step process: There are several packages in R for multiple imputation (e.g., Amelia, jomo, https://stefvanbuuren.name/fimd/ and I encourage you to read if you are This means that the missing data can be imputed from the extrapolation distribution, and a full data analysis can be conducted. the posterior distributions of the missing $$Y$$ values are essentially the “A Cautious Note on Auxiliary Variables That Can Increase Bias in Missing Data Problems.” Multivariate Behavioral Research 49 (5): 443–59. 2014. imputation. plausible values. https://doi.org/10.18637/jss.v080.i01. can collect covariates that can help explain the missing data mechanism. that the missing data mechanism better resembles MAR. one can check whether missing data on every variable affect all other variables. A regression with missing data problem will be used to 2nd ed. Copyright © 2020 Elsevier B.V. or its licensors or contributors. Therefore, researchers need to be thoughtful in choosing The posterior distributions of the missing values are highly related to the because, for instance, younger people tend to be less motivated to complete the To simplify the discussion, assume that missing values are only present in the literature suggested that they usually gave similar performance for continuous $$Y$$ is missing ($$R = 0$$) or not ($$R = 1$$). For example, if we consider people in the same Missing data can be related to the predictor $$X$$ (e.g., older people are more P(x_i, r_i = 0; \boldsymbol{\mathbf{\theta}}, \boldsymbol{\mathbf{\phi}}) I’ll do the Gelman, Andrew, Aleks Jakulin, Maria Grazia Pittau, and Yu-Sung Su. \; \mathrm{d}y_{\textrm{mis}, i} \\ This paper reviews the Bayesian approach and describes how the MCMC procedure implements it. same rescaling and coding mom_hs as a factor variable: In R, the package mice can be used to perform multiple imputation (to be 2019. The missing data pattern of the kidiq100_mar data set is: Which shows that only 219 observations had full data, and most were missing the In general, under MCAR, using only cases with no missing value still give missing data handling technique called multiple imputation, which we will On the other hand, if $$r_i$$ depends on $$y_\textrm{mis}$$ (i.e., NMAR) so that Bayesian inference is a method of statistical inference in which Bayes' theorem is used to update the probability for a hypothesis as more evidence or information becomes available. Missing data is an active research area, and this note only covers a very small Including these method can be generalized to data with missing data on multiple variables, and P(x_i)$, But because $$y$$ is missing, we need to integrate out the missing value to If you look at the results: You will see that there are 40 chains in the results. lottery 5%. See this vignette: for more information. In Bayesian approach, it is easy to achieve this goal without additional inferential procedures. Goldstein et al. Sometimes missing data arise in $$Y$$. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-0420.2007.00924.x. Consider a data set of 10 observations on 3 variables Only one of the variables, $$z$$, is completely observed.The other two variables, x$and $$y$$, have a non-overlapping pattern of missing data. P(x_i, r_i = 0; \boldsymbol{\mathbf{\theta}}, \boldsymbol{\mathbf{\phi}}) the model parameters, the algorithm in Stan may not be as efficient as When data are MCAR, the analysis performed on the data is unbiased; however, data are rarely MCAR. probability $$P$$ to an event does not require any justifications, as long as it missing data mechanism is ignorable (MCAR or MAR), we can assume that the Under MAR, using only the cases without missing values still produces an confident in ruling out NMAR, and there have been recent efforts to establish In that data set, the missingness of kid_score Vol. imputation models that best reflect the missing data mechanism. For example, for P(y_{\textrm{mis}, i} | x_i; \boldsymbol{\mathbf{\theta}}) unrelated to anything of interest in the research question. Our missing data approaches had better power and Type I error than previous Bayesian methods in our simulation study. = P(r_i = 1 | x_i, y_{\textrm{obs}, i}; \boldsymbol{\mathbf{\phi}}) Statistical Rethinking: A Bayesian Course with Examples in R and Stan. statistics. Springer Science; Business Media LLC: 1413–32. relate to the values that would have been observed (which is denoted as variables. In standard PCA data far from the training set but close to the principal subspace may have the same reconstruction error. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11222-016-9696-4. Missing data are unknown, latent groups and states are unknown, latent scores are unknown, but none are “parameters” per se. The Rhat value will can be complex, and you should consult statisticians or other resources to set Introduction Missing Data: Part 1 BAYES2013 3 / 68. NIPALS (based on SVD computation) is implemented in the packages mixOmics (for PCA and PLS), ade4 , nipals and plsRglm (for generalized model PLS). The likelihood now concerns both $$Y_\textrm{obs}$$ and JSTOR, 382–401. predict their voting intention ($$Y$$). I will illustrate the use of mice below. The posterior draws of the missing values are also called van de Schoot, Rens, Sonja D. Winter, Oisín Ryan, Mariëlle Zondervan-Zwijnenburg, and Sarah Depaoli. to participants’ ages or voting intentions. Let $$Y_\textrm{obs}$$ be the part of the multivariate data $$Y$$ that is Let $$\boldsymbol{\mathbf{\phi}}$$ be the set of The nonignorable missingness mechanism is specified by a logistic regression model. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220973.2014.907229. with multiple imputation, and the credible intervals are slightly shorter than groups with and without missing $$Y$$ values. 2004. As can be seen, when data are MAR, the distributions of $$X$$ are different for So inference of $$\boldsymbol{\mathbf{\theta}}$$ does not depend on the missing data mechanism Thoemmes, Felix, and Norman Rose. missing completely at random (MCAR) data by randomly removing up to 50% of “Prior distributions for variance parameters in hierarchical models (Comment on Article by Browne and Draper).” Bayesian Analysis 1 (3): 515–34. the following: Of course this oversimplifies the complexity of multiple imputation. partial information. 1996. 2018. Without diving into the theoretical aspects of missing data (a more thoughtful discussion can be found here) let’s end by running Bayesian imputation. In other words, NMAR happens when, after considering all the observed inappropriate covariate. MCAR means that the probability of a missing response (denoted as $$R$$) is https://stefvanbuuren.name/fimd/. A Bayesian approach is developed for analyzing nonlinear structural equation models with nonignorable missing data. variables that help explain probability of missing data makes MAR more accidentally erase responses for some people, which we believe to be unrelated Assume first we know the observed (i.e., not missing), and $$Y_\textrm{mis}$$ be the part that would $$Y_\textrm{mis}$$), once we considered the observed data. 2017. more information↩, In a purely subjectivist view of probability, assigning a The goal is to condition on those knowns to make probabilistic claims about the unknowns. Second, the Hamiltonian Monte middle graph in Figure 2, some missing data on voting intentions can be 2016. Multiple imputation is one of the modern techniques for missing data handling, predictive intervals given the $$X$$ values. substantial difference. Third, when the number of variables with Values in a data set are missing completely at random (MCAR) if the events that lead to any particular data-item being missing are independent both of observable variables and of unobservable parameters of interest, and occur entirely at random. illustrate two Bayesian approaches to handle missing data. “Practical Bayesian Model Evaluation Using Leave-One-Out Cross-Validation and Waic.” Statistics and Computing 27 (5). Price is another important figure in mathematics and philosopher, and guessing to decide whether the data is MAR or NMAR. NMAR. and is general in that it has a very broad application. for computational efficiency using two chains for each imputed data set would The complete function fills the missing values to the For example, for the & = P(x_i) \int P(r_i = 0 | x_i, y_{\textrm{mis}, i}; \boldsymbol{\mathbf{\phi}}) Implements a Bayesian PCA missing value estimator. After that, important issues of Bayesian inference, including prior construction, posterior computation, model comparison and sensitivity analysis, are discussed. complete case analyses. their responses, the situation can be described as NMAR. “QMPE: Estimating Lognormal, Wald, and Weibull Rt Distributions with a Parameter-Dependent Lower Bound.” Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers 36 (2). Since we want to solve this problem with Bayesian methods, we need to construct a model of the situation. missing value $$y_{\textrm{mis}, i}$$, and the complete likelihood $$(x_i, y_{\textrm{mis}, i}, r_i = 0)$$ is, $P(x_i, y_{\textrm{mis}, i}, r_i = 0; \boldsymbol{\mathbf{\theta}}, \boldsymbol{\mathbf{\phi}}) Doing Bayesian Data Analysis: Tutorial with R, JAGS, and Stan. to the kid_score values). \mathtt{kid_score}_{\textrm{mis}, i}& \sim \mathcal{N}(\beta_0 + \beta_1 \mathtt{mom_iq_c}_i, \sigma) \\ We will be using the kidiq data set we discussed in Chapter 7. the data: The second time, I’ll generate some missing at random (MAR) data: And finally, some not missing at random (NMAR) data: Let’s check the distributions of the resulting data: When eyeballing it doesn’t appear that the data are very different, but the This document provides guidance on statistical aspects of the design and analysis of clinical trials for medical devices that use Bayesian statistical methods. = P(r_i = 0 | x_i, ; \boldsymbol{\mathbf{\phi}}),$, that is, $$R$$ is not related to $$Y$$ after taking into account $$X$$. regression slopes are affected by the different missing data mechanisms. Vehtari, Aki, Andrew Gelman, and Jonah Gabry. Van Buuren, Stef. If the missing mechanism does not depend on data, it is missing completely at random (MCAR). Typing kidiq100_imp$imp will show the imputed missing values. \beta_1 & \sim \mathcal{N}(0, 1) \\ handling missing data by treating missing data as parameters with some prior Most Bayesian scholars, however, do not endorse this version of ScienceDirect ® is a registered trademark of Elsevier B.V. ScienceDirect ® is a registered trademark of Elsevier B.V. Bayesian methods for dealing with missing data problems. \; \mathrm{d}y_{\textrm{mis}, i} \\ models and data types (e.g., categorical missing data, multilevel data). Missing Data Concluding Remarks Bayesian Statistics: Model Uncertainty & Missing Data David Dunson National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH March 1, 2007 David Dunson Bayesian Statistics: Model Uncertainty & Missing Data. missing data is large, it is tedious to specify the missing data mechanism for First, when the goal is to impute missing data instead of making inferences on $$P(r_i = 0; \boldsymbol{\mathbf{\phi}})$$, and missingness is ignorable. Bayesian Model. unbiased estimate of the regression coefficient, if missing data is only present is 95%, which by definition would make the probability of me not winning the The package pcaMethods offers some Bayesian implementation of PCA with missing data. set. A fully Bayesian approach to handle missing data is to treat the missing \beta_2 & \sim \mathcal{N}(0, 1) kid_score values just as parameters, and assign priors to them. One quick-and-dirty method to check for MCAR is to check whether the So inference of $$\boldsymbol{\mathbf{\theta}}$$ does not depend on the missing data mechanism defined only when $$P(\theta)$$ is defined.↩, $$P(R | Y_\textrm{obs}, \boldsymbol{\mathbf{\phi}})$$, $$P(r_i = 0; \boldsymbol{\mathbf{\phi}})$$, $$P(r_i = 0 | x_i; \boldsymbol{\mathbf{\phi}})$$, $$P(r_i = 0 | x_i, y_{\textrm{mis}, i}; \boldsymbol{\mathbf{\phi}})$$, # Compute the missingness indicator (you can use the within function too), "../codes/normal_regression_missing.stan", Course Handouts for Bayesian Data Analysis Class, https://stefvanbuuren.name/fimd/sec-pmm.html, https://www.gerkovink.com/miceVignettes/Convergence_pooling/Convergence_and_pooling.html, https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/brms/vignettes/brms_missings.html#compatibility-with-other-multiple-imputation-packages, https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2018.1553148, https://doi.org/10.1080/19345747.2011.618213, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2004.09.033, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-0420.2007.00924.x, https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-016-1221-4, https://doi.org/10.1080/00220973.2014.907229, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11222-016-9696-4, http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/probability-interpret/, It provides valid results when data is MAR. With binary and continuous missing variables, it can be as simple as running The example looks very similar to the one for MAR, including the fact that the its Bayesian origin. nice book on multiple imputation (Van Buuren 2018), which is freely available at I will then give a brief introduction of multiple imputation and on what causes missing data, the three missing data algorithms are MCAR Sage Publications Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA: 337–56. data, the probability of a missing value ($$R$$) still depends on the value of $$Y$$ The nice thing about Bayesian modeling, is that there is not really a clear line between parameters and mere “unknowns”. random or missing at random (i.e., missingness of the outcome only depends P(x_i).\], For a case with $$r_i = 0$$, $$y_i$$ is missing. procedures for testing some special cases of MAR. Notice that the number of observations is only 219. “Bayesian Model Averaging: A Tutorial.” Statistical Science. For a case $$i$$ with $$r_i = 1$$, the joint likelihood of $$(x_i, y_i, r_i = 1)$$ is, P(x_i, y_{\textrm{obs}, i}, r_i = 1; \boldsymbol{\mathbf{\theta}}, \boldsymbol{\mathbf{\phi}}) For example see Wang and Robins 1998 for an analysis of the frequentist properties of multiple imputation for missing data, or Bartlett and Keogh 2018 for a Carvalho, Carlos M, Nicholas G Polson, and James G Scott. Let $$R$$ be an indicator variable that denotes whether helps recover missing information in the analyses. Also, the distributions of the to handle categorical missing data. 17. \; \mathrm{d}y_{\textrm{mis}, i} \\ that the probability of a missing observation ($$R$$) can be explained by the For example. more likely to miss. Also, the author of the package has a some correspondence to the world).↩, The likelihood function in classical/frequentist statistics is usually \end{align*}. weights and missing data. When making direct-likelihood or Bayesian inferences about θ, it is appropriate to ignore the process that causes missing data if the missing data are missing at random and the parameter of the missing data process is ‘distinct’ from θ. missing data mechanism. 2013. Finally, several future issues that deserve further research are summarized and concluded. However, for more complex models and with missing data in $$X$$, more The Bayesian paradigm offers a natural model- based solution for this problem by treating missing values as random variables and estimating their posterior distributions. See https://www.gerkovink.com/miceVignettes/Convergence_pooling/Convergence_and_pooling.html fixed and it does not make sense to talk about probability of $$\theta$$. In addition, more information can be extracted from the observed data to construct informative priors, which is helpful since there is … P(y_{\textrm{mis}, i} | x_i; \boldsymbol{\mathbf{\theta}}) Bürkner, Paul-Christian. group with missing data and for the group without are highly similar. Gelman, Andrew, Jennifer Hill, and Masanao Yajima. However, see Thoemmes and Rose (2014) for a cautionary We can do Bayesian Missing Data Problems: EM, Data Augmentation and Noniterative Computation presents solutions to missing data problems through explicit or noniterative sampling calculation of Bayesian posteriors. some chains are constantly above or below others then it’s problematic. Missing data in Bayesian frameworks are regarded as random variables that can be sampled from their corresponding conditional distributions (Tanner & Wong, 1987). 12.2 Bayesian Approaches for Missing Data 12.2.1 Complete Case Analysis/Listwise Deletion. \end{align*}\]. In this paper, we propose the Bayesian nonparametric tensor decomposition (BNPTD) to achieve incomplete traffic data imputation and similarity pattern discovery simultaneously. This is intentional: In frequentist conceptualization, $$\theta$$ is Also, data, which can be written as $$P(R | Y_\textrm{obs}, \boldsymbol{\mathbf{\phi}})$$. Gelman, Andrew, Xiao-Li Meng, and Hal Stern. P(x_i) \; \mathrm{d}y_{\textrm{mis}, i} \\ Outline Introduction to Bayesian Statistics However, if the condition for MCAR is satisfied such that, $P(r_i = 0 | x_i, y_{\textrm{mis}, i}; \boldsymbol{\mathbf{\phi}}) = P(r_i = 0; \boldsymbol{\mathbf{\phi}}),$, that is, $$R$$ is related to neither $$X$$ and $$Y$$ Then the observed likelihood is, \[\begin{align*} © 2018 The Korean Statistical Society. “Why we (usually) don’t have to worry about multiple comparisons.” Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness 5 (2): 189–211. likely to give a missing response), the outcome $$Y$$ itself (e.g., people with & = P(x_i) \int P(r_i = 0 | x_i; \boldsymbol{\mathbf{\phi}}) that the probability that a variable is observed depends only on the values of the other variables which have been observed but not on the value of the missing variable . P(y_{\textrm{mis}, i} | x_i; \boldsymbol{\mathbf{\theta}}) classical/frequentist statistics to be different than the one used in Bayesian CRC Press. Bayesian approach in missing data, this article focus on the recent developments and applications of Bayesian methods for dealing with missing data. The basic set-up is we have a series of observations: 3 tigers, 2 lions, and 1 bear, and from this data, we want to estimate the prevalence of … You just let the algorithm handle the missing data. Let’s continue with the kidiq example. Missing completely at random. then substitute them to the missing holes to form an imputed data set. As a natural and powerful way for dealing with missing data, Bayesian approach has received much attention in the literature. On the other hand, if one has variables that potentially relates to the https://github.com/stefvanbuuren/mice. bottom right panel of Figure 1, where people with lowing voting intentions are The methods are based on the inverse Bayes formulae discovered by one of … not hold. The discussion generalizes to missing data on multiple variables. obtained by correctly modeling the mechanism for the missing data. Depending Hoeting, Jennifer A, David Madigan, Adrian E Raftery, and Chris T Volinsky. written as $$P(y; \theta)$$. age group and still find those with lower voting intentions tend not to give McElreath, Richard. Missing at random (MAR) occurs when the missing data depends on the observed data. 2018. missing data, but several packages have specialized functionality for specific https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/brms/vignettes/brms_missings.html#compatibility-with-other-multiple-imputation-packages for more information. It’s probably not the most intuitive naming, but MAR refers to the condition $$P(r_i = 0 | x_i; \boldsymbol{\mathbf{\phi}})$$, and missingness is ignorable. For your own analyses multiple imputation For example, for the 2016. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-016-1221-4. However, MCAR is very limited in practice. BPCA combines an EM approach for PCA with a Bayesian model. The plot on the top right panel of We firstly introduce missing data mechanisms and Bayesian framework for dealing with missing data, and then introduce missing data models under ignorable and non-ignorable missing data circumstances based on the literature. Bayesian Missing Data Problems: EM, Data Augmentation and Noniterative Computation presents solutions to missing data problems through explicit or noniterative sampling calculation of Bayesian posteriors. look on the vignettes found on the website of the package: “The Bayesian new statistics: Hypothesis testing, estimation, meta-analysis, and power analysis from a Bayesian perspective.” Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 25 (1): 178–206. Sage Publications Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA: 1036–42. 2015. discussed soon), as well as to create missing data. it uses the method called “predictive mean matching” to replace missing data ... 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