Author(s)

Abdullah Z. Alruhaymi, Charles J. Kim

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Howard University, Washington DC, USA.

Multiple imputations compensate for missing data and produce multiple datasets by regression model and are considered the solver of the old problem of univariate imputation. The univariate imputes data only from a specific column where the data cell was missing. Multivariate imputation works simultaneously, with all variables in all columns, whether missing or observed. It has emerged as a principal method of solving missing data problems. All incomplete datasets analyzed before Multiple Imputation by Chained Equations (MICE) presented were misdiagnosed; results obtained were invalid and should not be countable to yield reasonable conclusions. This article will highlight why multiple imputations and how the MICE work with a particular focus on the cyber-security dataset. Removing missing data in any dataset and replacing it is imperative in analyzing the data and creating prediction models. Therefore, a good imputation technique should recover the missingness, which involves extracting the good features. However, the widely used univariate imputation method does not impute missingness reasonably if the values are too large and may thus lead to bias. Therefore, we aim to propose an alternative imputation method that is efficient and removes potential bias after removing the missingness.

Multiple Imputations, Imputations, Algorithms, MICE Algorithm

Alruhaymi, A. and Kim, C. (2021) Why Can Multiple Imputations and How (MICE) Algorithm Work?. Open Journal of Statistics, 11, 759-777. doi: 10.4236/ojs.2021.115045.