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Treatment of Missing Data: Beyond Ends and Means

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The ethical decision making process behind the treatment of missing data has yet to be examined in the research literature in any discipline. The purpose of the current paper is to begin to discuss this decision-making process in view of a Foucauldian framework. The paper suggests how the ethical treatment of missing data should be considered from the adoption of this theoretical framework.

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  1. Department of Educational Psychology, Baylor University, One Bear Place #97301, Waco, TX, 76798-7301, USA

    Lucy Barnard

  2. College of Education, Texas Tech University, P.O. Box 41071, Lubbock, TX, 79409, USA

    William Y. Lan

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Barnard, L., Lan, W.Y. Treatment of Missing Data: Beyond Ends and Means. J Acad Ethics 6, 173–176 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10805-008-9064-x

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