--- Hewan Belay <[email protected]> wrote:
> It appears that the command to estimate missing values, -impute-,
> always generates the new predicted value as a 'float' type. -impute-
> doesn't seem to have an option for setting the type. Even when I set
> the type to double permanently, -impute- still creates 'float'
> variables. It's a problem because I want to do some comparisons
> between the original variable and the imputed variable, and I found
> that differences are not only due to the missing values, but also
> because, as type float, the newly estimated variable has different
> values for large numbers due to 'float's imprecision.
The answer is that you shouldn't use -impute- at all. This is discussed
here: http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2007-12/msg00507.html
Use -ice- instead.
-- Maarten
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