Thanks, Paul. I did download listmiss and use it. Now my dilemma is
that the main culprits appear non-random wrt the dependent variable
according to listmiss (ie. t and p values appear in yellow with
stars). That means that I can't use ice because that assumes that the
missing observations are missing at random. I'd be grateful for any
suggestions as to what I should do next.
Ramani
On 03/11/05, Paul Millar <[email protected]> wrote:
> You might also use the post-estimation command - listmiss - to find
> which variables are the main culprits and which ones have missing
> values that are non-random wrt the dependent variable.
> ssc install listmiss
>
> - Paul Millar
>
> At 09:18 AM 02/11/2005, you wrote:
> >At 10:52 AM 11/2/2005, Ramani Gunatilaka wrote:
> >>Dear Statalist,
> >>This may seem a stupid question for the statisticians among you but
> >>I'd appreciate some help.
> >>I want to run a regression on cross-section data with lots of
> >>variables, some of which have missing values. When I do that, Stata
> >>estimates the model using only the observations which have values for
> >>all variables. I downloaded tabmiss and rmiss2 as in the relvant FAQ
> >>and the commands would certainly help in enabling me to decide which
> >>variables to drop. But is there any way that I could retain all the
> >>variables with their missing values and make allowance for the missing
> >>values by including a dummy for missing variables?
> >
> >The way you retain the missing values is by recoding them to a
> >non-missing value, e.g. the variable's mean. This has all sorts of
> >problems though. The MD dummy variable indicator that you propose
> >used to be popular but has since been discredited. See Paul
> >Allison's Sage book "Missing Data."
> >
> >For a synopsis of basic strategies and their pros and cons, see
> >
> >http://www.nd.edu/~rwilliam/stats2/l12.pdf
> >
> >That handout is weak in discussing more advanced methods, although
> >it does allude to them. You might check out Royston's -ice-
> >package, which was recently updated and discussed in the Stata Journal. Use
> >
> >-findit ice-
> >
> >
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