An imputation procedure is used to estimate the effects of nonresponse on
issues of substantive interest in a social survey. Using this method, one can
determine that nonresponse bias may have differential effects on variable
means, depending on the combination of independent variables used in the
ensuing substantive analysis of data from the survey.
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