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Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 11:26:34 -0500
From: Philipp Mitteröcker <[email protected]>
Reply-To: Philipp Mitteröcker <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: missing structures
To: [email protected]
The problem raised by Patrick is not really a missing data problem.
Missing data, in the technical sense, are structures or properties that do
exist in the specimens but could not have been measured. Hence it can make some
sense to estimate them. But when structures simply do not exist in some
specimens, what does it mean to estimate them?
In other words, if a structure is present in one group and absent in another
group, these groups differ not only quantitatively but also qualitatively.
Estimating the values, or letting landmarks overlap, means that a qualitative
difference is -- arbitrarily -- substituted by a quantitative one. Many
statistical results will be affected by this arbitrariness.
Note also that missing data approaches usually require the data to be missing
at random, which is presumably not the case in the problem at hand.
Best,
Philipp
Am 28.11.2013 um 10:55 schrieb [email protected]:
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> Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 05:06:20 -0500
> From: sebastien couette <[email protected]>
> Reply-To: sebastien couette <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: missing structures
> To: [email protected]
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> Dear Patrick,
>
> I published a paper on missing data in 2010:
>
> Sébastien Couette, Jess White (2010)3D geometric morphometrics and
> missing-data. Can extant taxa give clues for the analysis of fossil
> primates?
> Comptes Rendus Palevol 9(6):423-433. DOI:10.1016/j.crpv.2010.07.002
>
> I can send you a copy.
>
> There is also a good paper on this topic in Systbiol:
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> Brown, C.M., Arbour, J.H., Jackson,D.A. (2012). testing the effect of
> missing data estimation and distribution in morphometric multivariate
> data analyses. Systematic biology,61(6),941-954.
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> Feel free to contac me if any questions
>
> Sébastien
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