Proceedings of the 1998 conference on Advances in neural information processing systems II
Research Article: Robust data imputation
Computational Biology and Chemistry
Detection of multivariate outliers in business survey data with incomplete information
Advances in Data Analysis and Classification
Iterative stepwise regression imputation using standard and robust methods
Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Optimum estimation of missing values in randomized complete block design by genetic algorithm
Knowledge-Based Systems
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As missing values are often encountered in gene expression data, many imputation methods have been developed to substitute these unknown values with estimated values. Despite the presence of many imputation methods, these available techniques have some disadvantages. Some imputation techniques constrain the imputation of missing values to a limited set of genes, whereas other imputation methods optimise a more global criterion whereby the computation time of the method becomes infeasible. Others might be fast but inaccurate. Therefore in this paper a new, fast and accurate estimation procedure, called SEQimpute, is proposed. By introducing the idea of minimisation of a statistical distance rather than a Euclidean distance the method is intrinsically different from the thus far existing imputation methods. Moreover, this newly proposed method can be easily embedded in a multiple imputation technique which is better suited to highlight the uncertainties about the missing value estimates. A comparative study is performed to assess the estimation of the missing values by different imputation approaches. The proposed imputation method is shown to outperform some of the existing imputation methods in terms of accuracy and computation speed.