Thanks for the replies so far.
The absolute number of employees does not have any zero values, as would be
expected. Thus it is still a complete mystery to me why negative values
appear after imputation.
I am now applying the -impute- command from Stata, which seems to perform
better. However, there are also dummy variables which need to be imputed.
This becomes a bit messy when applying the -impute- command since no
estimation technique can be selected (-logit- instead of -regress-). I am
now thinking of applying -impute- and then rounding the results for the
dummies, since these dummy variables are not very important for my analysis
(only for control). I know it isn't very pretty, but I don't see any other
(simple) solutions.
If anyone has any better ideas, I would gladly hear them.
Ow and naturally I will also run a standard analysis with listwise deletion.
Best regards,
Ren�
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Verzonden: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 2:26 PM
Aan: [email protected]
Onderwerp: Re: st: Issue with multiple imputation -ICE-
--- Ren� Wevers <[email protected]> wrote:
> For instance I am estimating missing variables for the full time
> equivalent (FTE) of employees of a company mainly based on the
> absolute number of employees. (Logically) the absolute number of
> employees is never below zero. Also when I run a regression between
> the FTE number and absolute number I get a highly significant
> relation with positive coefficient and a positive constant estimates.
> Nevertheless when I run -ice-, the imputed values are extremely often
> (far) below zero (!!!).
Such a pattern can occur when the absolute number of employees have
received the value 0 when it actually should have been missing: than
you are extrapolating the number of FTEs for a company with 0
employees, which could very well be negative.
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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