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Re: st: RE: RE: Imputing error: Obs. nos. out of range
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Maarten buis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: RE: RE: Imputing error: Obs. nos. out of range
Date
Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:03:14 +0000 (GMT)
--- On Tue, 13/4/10, Ploutz-Snyder, Robert wrote:
> I've returned to this error
> problem--unsuccessful attempt to use ice to impute missing
> values in a dataset.
>
> Per Martin's suggestion I used the trace option, with m=1
> and cycles=100. Here the code that I used:
>
>
> ice x1 x2 x1x2 x4 z_x5 x6 x7 x8 x7x8 x10 x11 x12 x13 z_x14
> y1-y6 z_y7 z_y8 y9-y22,
> m(1) passive(x7x8:x7*x8)
> saving(mrid_imputed, replace) seed(112233) trace(mridtrace)
> cycles(100)
The suggestion was not to use the -trace- option, but to
precede the -ice- command with the command -set trace on-.
The former can be used to see if the Gibbs sample has
converged, while the latter can be used to find problem in
the program.
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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