Re: st: ICE and two conditions

[Richard Williams <richardwilliams.ndu@gmail.com>]

At 02:22 PM 12/1/2011, daniel klein wrote:
> I feel I have to clarify something here. My statement was mainly
> concerned with a quick solution to the problem at hand and might well
> have sounded a bit too general. I appologize.
>
> I did not want to state, that you should prefer -mi impute chained-
> over -ice- or that -ice- is completely useless now that Stata 12 is
> shipped.
>
> From http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/stat/mi_ice.html it is clear,
> that at least -ice- includes "stepwise model selection" which -mi
> impute chained- does not. I have not looked into the code, but Yulia
> Marchenko states that -mi chained- and -ice- use the same method,
> which makes me believe there should not be a reason to prefer one or
> the other. I would like to hear others to comment on this issue,
> especially on passive imputation (e.g. interactions). I could imagine
> a gain in execution time of -mi impute chained- over -ice- when using
> Stata MP.

Thanks for the clarifications. Previous posts on Statalist have 
argued against using passive imputation. 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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