方法对比

	MICE	EM算法	Multiple Imputation
领域	统计学	统计学	统计学
方法族	Process / pipeline	Machine learning	Process / pipeline
起源年份	2011	1977	1987
提出者	Stef van Buuren & Karin Groothuis-Oudshoorn	Dempster, Laird & Rubin	Donald B. Rubin
类型	Iterative multiple imputation algorithm	Iterative optimization algorithm	Missing-data handling procedure
开创性文献	van Buuren, S., & Groothuis-Oudshoorn, K. (2011). mice: Multivariate imputation by chained equations in R. Journal of Statistical Software, 45(3), 1–67.	Dempster, A. P., Laird, N. M., & Rubin, D. B. (1977). Maximum likelihood from incomplete data via the EM algorithm. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B, 39(1), 1–38.	Rubin, D.B. (1987). Multiple Imputation for Nonresponse in Surveys. Wiley.
别名	Fully Conditional Specification, Sequential Regression Multivariate Imputation, Chained Equations Imputation, Zincirleme Denklemlerle Çoklu Atama	EM, Expectation-Maximization, Maximum Likelihood via Incomplete Data, BM Algoritması	MICE, Multivariate Imputation by Chained Equations, Çoklu Atama (Multiple Imputation — MICE)
相关	3	2	1
摘要	Multivariate Imputation by Chained Equations (MICE) is an iterative procedure for handling missing data in multivariate datasets. Introduced by Stef van Buuren and Karin Groothuis-Oudshoorn through the R package mice (2011), the algorithm fills each missing variable using a separate regression model conditioned on all other variables, cycling through variables repeatedly until the imputed values converge. The result is m completed datasets that are analysed separately and combined using Rubin's rules.	The Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm is an iterative optimization procedure for finding maximum likelihood or maximum a posteriori estimates of parameters in statistical models with latent variables or missing data. Introduced by Dempster, Laird, and Rubin in their landmark 1977 paper, EM alternates between computing the expected complete-data log-likelihood (E-step) and maximizing it with respect to the parameters (M-step), guaranteeing monotone non-decreasing likelihood at each iteration.	Multiple Imputation (MI), formally introduced by Donald B. Rubin in 1987, is a principled statistical procedure for handling missing data. Rather than replacing each missing value once, MI fills the gaps m times — each time drawing plausible values from the posterior predictive distribution of the missing data — producing m complete datasets. Each dataset is analysed independently, and the results are combined into a single set of estimates using Rubin's pooling rules. The MICE variant (Multivariate Imputation by Chained Equations), popularised by van Buuren and Groothuis-Oudshoorn (2011), extends the approach to mixed variable types by imputing each variable in turn through a sequence of conditional regression models.