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EM and Beyond

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Donald B. Rubin
Donald B. Rubin*
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Department of Statistics, Harvard University
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Abstract

The basic theme of the EM algorithm, to repeatedly use complete-data methods to solve incomplete data problems, is also a theme of several more recent statistical techniques. These techniques—multiple imputation, data augmentation, stochastic relaxation, and sampling importance resampling—combine simulation techniques with complete-data methods to attack problems that are difficult or impossible for EM.

Keywords

data augmentationGibbs samplermissing dataMonte Carlo methodsmultiple imputationsampling importance resamplingsimulation techniquesstochastic relaxation

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Original Paper
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Psychometrika , Volume 56 , Issue 2 , June 1991 , pp. 241 - 254
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Copyright © 1991 The Psychometric Society

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Footnotes

A preliminary version of this article was the Keynote Address at the 1987 European Meeting of the Psychometric Society June 24–26, 1987 in Enschede, The Netherlands. The author wishes to thank the editor and reviewers for helpful comments.

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