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Re: st: Multiple Imputation (MI)
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Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Multiple Imputation (MI)
Date
Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:36:28 +0100
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 5:28 PM, john ebireri wrote:
> I just want to ask if MI is suitable only for primary data
>
> I have read a few papers on MI and they keep talking about it used for missings in survey data.
>
> Is it suitable for this method (MI) to be used in handling missing data in secondary data?
What is secondary data? This kind of terminology is usually incredibly
specific to one (sub-(sub-(sub-)))discipline, and the same thing is
often known under (a) completely different name(s) in other
disciplines.
-- 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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