CALIBERrfimpute-package {CALIBERrfimpute}

Imputation in MICE using Random Forest

Description

Multivariate Imputation by Chained Equations (MICE) is commonly used to impute missing values in analysis datasets using full conditional specifications. However, it requires that the predictor models are specified correctly, including interactions and nonlinearities. Random Forest is a regression and classification method which can accommodate interactions and non-linearities without requiring a particular statistical model to be specified.

The mice package provides the mice.impute.rf function for imputation using Random Forest, as of version 2.20. The CALIBERrfimpute package provides different, independently developed imputation functions using Random Forest in MICE.

This package contains reports of two simulation studies:

Simulation study is a comparison of Random Forest and parametric MICE in a linear regression example.

Vignette for survival analysis with interactions - large sample compares the Random Forest MICE algorithm for continuous variables (mice.impute.rfcont) with parametric MICE and the algorithm of Doove et al. in the mice package (mice.impute.cart and mice.impute.rf).

Vignette for survival analysis with interactions - small sample is a small sample example of the above, created during compilation of the package.

Details

Package:	CALIBERrfimpute
Type:	Package
Version:	1.0-7
Date:	2022-11-17
License:	GPL-3

Author(s)

Anoop Shah

Maintainer: [e-mail]

References

Shah AD, Bartlett JW, Carpenter J, Nicholas O, Hemingway H. Comparison of Random Forest and parametric imputation models for imputing missing data using MICE: a CALIBER study. American Journal of Epidemiology 2014; 179(6): 764–774. doi:10.1093/aje/kwt312 https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/179/6/764/107562

Doove LL, van Buuren S, Dusseldorp E. Recursive partitioning for missing data imputation in the presence of interaction effects. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 2014; 72: 92–104. doi:10.1016/j.csda.2013.10.025 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167947313003939

See Also

mice, randomForest, mice.impute.rfcont, mice.impute.rfcat, mice.impute.rf