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Re: st: Multiple imputation combined with collapse
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Richard Williams <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: Multiple imputation combined with collapse
Date
Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:51:11 -0500
At 12:07 PM 7/30/2011, Chris Parker wrote:
Hi Statalist,
I have a question about multiple imputation. I have missing data in one
of my variables, x in the example below, which I then create several
passive variables for. I then collapse the data and try to run a
regression but the collapsed passive variables based on x are identical
to the collapsed original x variable. Does anyone know what I am doing
wrong here? I tried searching in [MI] but found no reference to
-collapse- which I take as a sign that I cannot do what I am trying to
do. Is -mi- unable to handle collapse?
I don't know the answer to your question, but I do know that at least
some people think passive imputation is a bad idea. Instead, you
should compute the variables in your original data set, and then let
their missing values be imputed (which is wildly counter-intuitive
but seems to work better). See
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2009-02/msg00602.html
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2009-02/msg00613.html
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