Tim said
I have a rather simple question. I am trying to figure out exactly
what the -impute- command in Stata does to estimate missing values.
The help files in Stata are not very helpful. From what I have found
on the internet, it appears -impute- is a regression-based method to
estimate missing values based on other variables in the data set.
However, the help files also say that -impute- "organizes the cases by
patterns of missing data so that the missing-value regressions can be
conducted efficiently." Does anyone know what this entails? I need to
include some mention of this in my methods section.
The description in [D] impute seems quite clear to me.
Kit
Kit Baum, Boston College Economics and DIW Berlin
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata:
http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html
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