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Best practices for addressing missing data through multiple imputation
A common challenge in developmental research is the amount of incomplete and missing data that occurs from respondents failing to complete tasks or questionnaires, as well as from disengaging from the study (i.e., attrition). This missingness can lead to biases in parameter estimates and, hence, in the interpretation of findings. These biases can be addressed through statistical techniques that adjust for missing data, such as multiple imputation. Although multiple imputation is highly effective, it has not been widely adopted by developmental scientists given barriers such as lack of training or misconceptions about imputation methods. Utilizing default methods within statistical software programs like listwise deletion is common but may introduce additional bias. This manuscript is intended to provide practical guidelines for developmental researchers to follow when examining their data for missingness, making decisions about how to handle that missingness and reporting the extent of missing data biases and specific multiple imputation procedures in publications
Saline seep diagnosis, control and reclamation
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Saline seep diagnosis, control and reclamation
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Concentration Requirement of glycine as nitrogen source for supporting effective growth of certain marine microplanktonic algae
Shrinkage stress and mechanical properties of photoactivated composite resin using the argon ion laser
Effect of irrigation, nitrogen application, and a nitrification inhibitor on nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide and methane emissions from an olive (Olea europaea L.) orchard
Repercussion of anthropogenic landscape changes on pedodiversity and preservation of the pedological heritage
Over a period of time people have lived in and with their surrounding
landscapes and for several thousand years transformed the soilscapes
and the vegetation into cultural landscape types important for their
economy and to meet their needs (Richter 2007, Ellis 2011, Hjelle 2012).
The sustainable provision of goods and services depends critically
on managing soils without damaging the natural soilscapes and the
related natural resources. To support the transition towards sustainable
development, science needs to understand how land-use change affects
the environment and how this, in turn, feeds back into human livelihood
strategies or infl uences the vulnerability of the environment (Rounsevell et
al. 2012a). Interactions between decision-making, governance structures,
production and consumption, technology, ecosystem services and global
environmental change infl uence human activities at the local and regional
scale, and are infl uenced by and feed back to the global scale, thereby
shaping trajectories of humanâenvironment interaction in land systems
(Lambin and Meyfroidt 2011)