I think that the impute command works only for continous variables. If
you want to base your imputation on the determinsitic regression
technique, you would perhaps need to use a -probit- command.
Shqiponja
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Bozick [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 19 May 2004 15:56
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: the impute command
Hello -
I have a few questions concerning the impute command.
I am trying to impute values to a dichotomous variable coded 1 if
individuals were employed and 0 if they were not.
First, does the impute command treat all the predictor variables in the
same
way that a regression command does? More specifically, if I am using a
set
of dummy variables, do I omit one category? I ask this because I was
doing
some test runs and I included ALL variables in the impute command and it
did
not give me the message "variable was dropped due to collinearity."
Second, is there a way to specify the impute command to round imputed
values
either to 1 or 0 depending on the prediction (e.g. predicted values 0 -
.49
become 0 and values .50-1 become 1) ?
Thanks!
Robert
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