Re: st: -mim- available on SSC

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

At 12:33 PM 3/18/2007, Nick Cox wrote:
> MIM
>  module to analyse and manipulate multiply imputed datasets
>  Authors: John C. Galati Patrick Royston John B. Carlin
>  Req: Stata version 9
>  Created: 2007-02-28
As luck would have it, a student of mine wants to use a multiply 
imputed data set she is getting from some external source.  Assuming 
I can convert it to Stata format in the first place, is it generally 
easy to do analysis with such a data set?  The documentation for 
-mim- makes it sound incredibly simple; the help file says

    For a multiply-imputed dataset to be compatible with mim, the 
dataset must contain:
        a numeric variable called _mj whose values identify the 
individual dataset to which each observation belongs,
        a numeric variable called _mi whose values identify the 
observations within each individual dataset.

I think we could handle that!  But I wonder if there won't be other 
complications, given that the data set wasn't created by 
-ice-.  Maybe it doesn't matter though.




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