Dr Vanessa Botan, Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Medical Statistics at CaHRU gave the first seminar of 2023 on the topic of ‘Dealing with missing data: imputation or deletion?’
Vanessa’s background is multidisciplinary and diverse. She has developed expertise in statistical data analyses and research methods across various fields including biomedical sciences, neuroscience, and psychology. Her ongoing academic interests include medical statistics and intervention based research.
The seminar addressed the issue of missing data. Vanessa discussed the two main options available to deal with it: deletion and imputation, touching on the most common imputation methods. Vanessa also provided examples of situations in which they can be and had been used. The seminar was well attended online and in person, it was very well received and generated many questions.
If you would like to view the seminar click the recording and presentation slides below. If you would like to attend future seminars, please contact Sue Bowler sbowler@lincoln.ac.uk.