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As the court says above, hot-deck imputation is valuable only when used out of absolute necessity. The problem is, there is no way to make sure that its use is saved for situations which truly require it. The lack of laws about the use of hot-deck imputation opens the opportunity for its misuse and manipluation.
As the court says above, hot-deck imputation is valuable only when used out of absolute necessity. The problem is, there is no way to make sure that its use is saved for situations which truly require it. The lack of laws about the use of hot-deck imputation opens the opportunity for its misuse and manipluation.
The court also said, "Utah has not claimed that the Bureau has used imputation to manipulate results. It has not explained how census-taking that fills in ultimate blanks through imputation is more susceptible to manipulation than census-taking that fills in ultimate blanks with a zero." But when one fills in blanks with zero, there is only one choice, and no opportunity for bias. Imputation uses a number from the same set, but with so many numbers to choose one, there is much room for error or manipulation.
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