thank you very much for the thoughtful reply.
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Richard Williams
<[email protected]> wrote:
> At 11:11 PM 2/2/2010, Jet wrote:
>>
>> Hi, all,
>>
>> My variable is measured by likert scales, and there are a few
>> missing values. I am thinking of using mean, mode or median to
>> substitute the missing values. Which is better given the ordinal
>> nature of the measurement?
>
> The multiple imputation procedures in Stata 11 allow you to impute values
> for ordinal variables.
>
> Consider too what you are going to do with this variable once you have got
> it. If you are going to use it as the dependent variable in an ologit
> analysis, that rules out using the mean. If you are going to use it as an
> independent variable, do you plan on treating it as continuous? If so, you
> wouldn't be the first person in the world to do so and plugging in a mean or
> an imputed regression estimate becomes more reasonable.
>
>
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