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- Title
Planned missing-data designs in experience-sampling research: Monte Carlo simulations of efficient designs for assessing within-person constructs.
- Authors
Silvia, Paul; Kwapil, Thomas; Walsh, Molly; Myin-Germeys, Inez
- Abstract
Experience-sampling research involves trade-offs between the number of questions asked per signal, the number of signals per day, and the number of days. By combining planned missing-data designs and multilevel latent variable modeling, we show how to reduce the items per signal without reducing the number of items. After illustrating different designs using real data, we present two Monte Carlo studies that explored the performance of planned missing-data designs across different within-person and between-person sample sizes and across different patterns of response rates. The missing-data designs yielded unbiased parameter estimates but slightly higher standard errors. With realistic sample sizes, even designs with extensive missingness performed well, so these methods are promising additions to an experience-sampler's toolbox.
- Subjects
MAXIMUM likelihood statistics; CLINICAL health psychology; HYPOMANIA; MONTE Carlo method; EMOTIONS; INTERPERSONAL relations
- Publication
Behavior Research Methods, 2014, Vol 46, Issue 1, p41
- ISSN
1554-351X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3758/s13428-013-0353-y