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What does ignorable mean?

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  1. That can be ignored.
  2. (statistics, of missing data) Unrelated to the parameters being estimated
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One where disability is not pitied and ignorable, but strong and screaming to life.
Here, a nonignorable nonresponse model is centered on an ignorable nonresponse model to induce some flexibility and uncertainty about ignorabilty or nonignorability.
The author also proposes a simple method of verifying the validity of the hypothesis of error normality whenever nonresponse is not ignorable.
Estimators of the population mean obtained by mean imputation or reweighting under the ignorable nonresponse assumption are then biased.
It was during the filming of that 1991 comedy that Pryor realised the MS, which he'd been trying to ignore, was no longer ignorable.
The first approach assumes uniform response within imputation cells whereas the second approach assumes ignorable response but make use of a model on the variable of interest as the basis for inference.

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