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Re: st: RE: RE: -impute- variable creates only type 'float'
At 08:25 PM 7/15/2008, Hewan Belay wrote:
Dear Richard,
- making the impute.ado adjustment as you suggested sounded like a
logical step. I did it, but it would refuse to recognise my newly
created impute2.ado for some reason, though I saved it in the same
folder as where impute.ado was located. By the way, looking at the
ado file, I now see why -set type double, permanently- doesn't do
the trick... because the ado file asks for new vars to be created as
float, and the -set- just gives guidelines for new vars for which
the type is not explicitly specified.
Seems to work for me. I copied impute.ado and called it impute2.ado,
and placed it on c:\personal\ado (although anywhere in Stata's path
should work). I then changed the 2nd line to
program impute2, sortpreserve
Finally, I replaced the two occurrences of "float" with
"double". Then I ran the following:
. sysuse auto
(1978 Automobile Data)
. impute2 rep78 price mpg headroom, gen(xrep78)
6.76% (5) observations imputed
. des xrep78
storage display value
variable name type format label variable label
--------------------------------------------------------------
xrep78 double %10.0g imputed rep78
Make sure you did all of the above, and make sure Stata is finding
impute2. Use the which command to check, e.g.
. which impute2
c:\ado\personal\impute2.ado
*! version 3.1.4 17jan2005
If somebody wanted to spend more time on this, I imagine they could
check the type of the DV and, if it was double, set the type for the
new variable accordingly. But, as Maarten says, it would be evil. :)
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