I Don't Like My Data: Note from the Guest Editor about the Special Issue of MLRV

Abstract

This Special Issue of MLRV was conceived during the 1998 AERA meeting in San Diego, CA. Isadore Newman and Keith McNeil approached me about guest editing this issue after I had served as the Discussant for a paper session sponsored by the MLR: GLM SIG. The original idea was to include the four papers from that session with my discussion notes as editorial commentary. After accepting this challenge I contacted each of those authors and invited two other papers that I felt would help complete two coherent themes: (1) Analysis of Missing Values and (2) Alternative Regression Procedures. I think you will find the articles enlightening at both the applied and theoretical levels. I can only hope that my comments are equally insightful.