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RE: st: Situation where multiple imputation may be of no use?
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Cameron McIntosh <[email protected]>
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RE: st: Situation where multiple imputation may be of no use?
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Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:51:27 -0500
So why not try FIML? What analytical technique are you using?
Cam
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> Subject: Re: Re: st: Situation where multiple imputation may be of no use?
> Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:08:50 +0000
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> Thanks to Richard Williams for his thoughts. The vonHippel 2007 reference linked in his reply is particularly helpful and completely explains the theory underlying my intuitions: the observations with missing dependent variable contain no information about the regression coefficients, and, in fact, are in most situations best omitted from the MI analysis.
>
> Well, I was hoping I was wrong, because it might have been an easy way to save our project. Instead, we'll have to do some hard work figuring out something else.
>
> Clyde Schechter
> Department of Family & Social medicine
> Albert Einstein College of Medicine
> Bronx, NY, USA
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