ABSTRACT

Stef van Buuren Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research TNO, Leiden & University of Utrecht, the Netherlands

The term fully conditional specification (FCS) refers to a class of imputation models for nonmonotone multivariate missing data. Other names for this class of models include sequential regression multivariate imputation and chained equations. As non-monotone missing data frequently occur in practice, FCS covers a wide range of missing data problems.