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st: imputing categorical variables


From   "Bellessa Frost, Michelle" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: imputing categorical variables
Date   Mon, 20 Oct 2003 13:36:48 -0400

Hello,
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Is there any way to impute a value for data missing from categorical variables in Stata?� The Stata "impute" command uses OLS to estimate missing values, appropriate only for continuous variables.� I need to deal with missing data for non-continuous variables.
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Theoretically, I could use logit and multinomial logit models, with the predict command, to obtain predicted values for missing cases.� But, when there are missing cases in any of the variables I condition on (the independent variables in the regression), I get a missing for the predicted variable in that case.
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Has anyone dealt with something like this before?
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Thanks--Michelle 



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