Missing data has been something I’ve been working on in my research since I started my PhD in 2013. This was largely because I was clued in to the whole idea of missing data in my fourth year stats unit in Psychology where we had a few lectures on missing data. Data was always super clean for all of our pracs in SPSS. So, it was a pretty profound moment for me, missing data was the start of the whole idea that data could be not clean.
When I started my PhD I had a pretty huge amount of missing data in the first dataset I looked at, which led me to write my …