1. Please supply informative titles for your postings.
2. In any recent Stata [sic],
. findit hotdeck
should point to several items. If, as in your case,
you have not yet installed -hotdeck-, then clicking on
-hotdeck- within the text
(help hotdeck if installed)
will do no good, if that is what you are doing.
4. The most recent -hotdeck- appears to be that on the SSC site
and so should be installed using -ssc-.
4. -hotdeck- and -micombine- are totally different programs,
based on quite different principles and by quite
different people.
5. A useful brief comment on methods for handling missing data seems
hardly possible in the face of a large literature, which your
thorough reading of Allison's monograph will have indicated.
Nick
n.j.cox
Shyamal Kumar Das wrote
Can someone tell me how to install -Hotdec- in STATA 9.0?
When I type "findit hotdec", I get a page for "micombine"
and others with "hotdeck", but while I click hotdeck, the
program says it is not found. Instead, micombine and others
are found.
Is "micombine" the same as hotdec? I would also appreciate
someone's comment in handling with missing values. I have
read Allison thoroughly, and he commented that hotdec is the
most used technique in this regard, although it has some
problems.
