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Handling missing values in trait data
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Aim Trait data are widely used in ecological and evolutionary phylogenetic comparative studies, but often values are not available for all species of interest. Traditionally, researchers have excluded species without data from analyses, but estimation of missing values using imputation has been proposed as a better approach. However, imputation methods have largely been designed for randomly missing data, whereas trait data are often not missing at random (e.g., more data for bigger species). Here, we evaluate the performance of approaches for handling missing values when considering biased datasets. Location Any. Time period Any. Major taxa studied Any. Methods We simulated continuous traits and separate response variables to test the performance of nine imputation methods and complete-case analysis (excluding missing values from the dataset) under biased missing data scenarios. We characterized performance by estimating the error in imputed trait values (deviation from the true value) and inferred trait-response relationships (deviation from the true relationship between a trait and response). Results Generally,Rphyloparsimputation produced the most accurate estimate of missing values and best preserved the response-trait slope. However, estimates of missing data were still inaccurate, even with only 5% of values missing. Under severe biases, errors were high with every approach. Imputation was not always the best option, with complete-case analysis frequently outperformingMiceimputation and, to a lesser degree,BHPMFimputation.Mice, a popular approach, performed poorly when the response variable was excluded from the imputation model. Main conclusions Imputation can handle missing data effectively in some conditions but is not always the best solution. None of the methods we tested could deal effectively with severe biases, which can be common in trait datasets. We recommend rigorous data checking for biases before and after imputation and propose variables that can assist researchers working with incomplete datasets to detect data biases and minimize errors.
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BHPMF
functional trait
imputation
life-history trait
MAR
MCAR
missing data
MNAR
multiple imputation chained equations
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