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- not comparableNot ignorable.
Although it is fundamental for valid statistical inference, identifiability under nonignorable missing mechanisms is not established for many commonly-used models.
2015, Wang Miao, Peng Ding, Zhi Geng, “Identifiability of Normal and Normal Mixture Models With Nonignorable Missing Data”, in arXiv1 more example
"It's a brute force method," said Clifford Young, the president of U.S. public affairs at Ipsos. "That is, we don't really know what it corrects for. Does it correct for only nonignorable nonresponse? Or does it correct for coverage bias? Or maybe a likely voter problem? Maybe all three."
2023 July 12, Andrew Fischer, “Polls Were Great in 2022. Can They Repeat Their Success in 2024?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Jul 2023
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