Treatment of Missing Data. R package?

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Marco Calderisi

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Paolo Giordani

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Rand R Wilcox

Attached is a recent paper on this issue. The citation is

Wilcox, R. R. (2011). Comparing two dependent groups: Dealing with

missing values Journal of Data Science, 9, 1--13.

The R package WRS (Forge) contains a function for applying it. Details and illustrations can be found in

Wilcox, R. R. (2012). Modern Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences: A Practical Introduction