Re: st: impute vs. predict

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 03:50 PM 3/1/2007, Caleb Southworth wrote:
> What is the difference between -impute- and -reg- followed by
> -predict-?
Impute fills in missing values, so after imputation the variable will 
be a combination of values actually observed and values that were imputed.

With reg and predict, all the values for yhat will be imputed.

If I'm right, I believe this would be apparent if you added 
t_aflcio_mem to your listing.

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