Multiple Imputation Reducing Outlier Effect using Weight Adjustment Methods

Imputation is a commonly used method to handle missing survey data. The performance of the imputation method is influenced by various factors, especially an outlier. The removal of the outlier in a data set is a simple and effective approach to reduce the effect of an outlier. In this paper in order to improve the precision of multiple imputation, we study a imputation method which reduces the effect of outlier using various weight adjustment methods that include the removal of an outlier method. The regression method in PROC/MI in SAS is used for multiple imputation and the obtained final adjusted weight is used as a weight variable to obtain the imputed values. Simulation studies compared the performance of variou