--- ucb_gal <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, I've run -ice- and my new imputed dataset still has missing data.
> Is this normal? If so, why does this happen?
Yes it is normal: -ice- stores the different datasets stacked on top of
each other. It differentiates between samples using the variable _mj.
The first sample (which is not used by -micombine- or -mim- has a value
for _mj of 0 and is just the original data, with missing values.
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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