Re: st: ICE with Interval Error #459 multiple imputation

[Laura Kudrna <laura.kudrna@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Thank you for your response.  Apologies about ICE, I'm new to the
listserve: ICE comes from //www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucakjpr/stata/

To answer your question about the bounds, yes: when I created the
upper limit variable ul7 that has no missing values and I include it
in the ice code, the upper and lower bounds remain 7.  But for
example, when I impute my variable sclifeca2  "Life Satisfaction"
which has a scale of 1 to 7 I get imputed values ranging from -0.5 to
9.  I am using multiple imputation to impute all the predictor and
explanatory variables at once.

I replicated the STATA code precisely from the ICE help for interval.

ICE help for interval states:  ...intlist has the syntax varname:llvar
ulvar [, varname:llvar ulvar ...], where each varname is an
interval-censored variable, each llvar contains the lower bound (a)
for varname and each ulvar contains the upper bound (b)

My syntax is: ice ll1 ul7 sclifeca2 .....(other variables).....,
saving(imputed_dataset) m(5) interval(sclifeca2:ll1 ul7).

I still can't understand why I am getting the error message and I
would be most grateful if you have any other suggestions on how to fix
it.

Best wishes,
Laura


On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 7:32 AM, A Loumiotis
<antonis.loumiotis@gmail.com> wrote:
> If the variable that you are imputing with interval regression is not
> missing then the lower and upper bounds should equal that non missing
> value.  Is this true in your case?  See -help ice- especially the
> interval option.
>
> -ice- is a user written program available from SJ-9-3.  Please state
> where user written programs come from as explained in Statalist FAQ.
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 12:29 AM, Laura Kudrna <laura.kudrna@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am having the same error message / problem as the post below from
>> the STATA message boards - Error #459.  It occurs when using the
>> interval option with ICE.
>>
>> I generated two variables, ll1 and ul7, containing values of 1 and 7
>> respectively to set the upper and lower bound for my variable
>> sclifeca2.
>>
>> My STATA code is:
>>
>> ice ll1 ul7 sclifeca2 sclifeca3 sclifeca4 sclddr2 sclddr3 sclddr4
>> iincome2 iincome3 iincome4 education2 occupation2 unemployed2
>> unemployed3 sex2 age2 age3 age4 partner2 partner3 partner4 vehicles2
>> vehicles3 vehicles4 holiday2 holiday3 holiday4 secprop2 secprop3
>> secprop4 weight2 weight3 weight4, saving(imputed_dataset) m(5)
>> interval(sclifeca2:ll1 ul7)
>>
>> My error message is:
>> Error #459 encountered while running -uvis-
>> I detected a problem with running uvis with command intreg on response sclifeca2
>> and covariates sclifeca3 sclifeca4 sclddr2 sclddr3 sclddr4 iincome2
>> iincome3 iincome4 education2 occupation2 unemployed2 unemployed3 sex2
>> ag
>>> e2 age3 age4 partner2 partner3 partner4 vehicles2 vehicles3 vehicles4 holiday2 holiday3 holiday4 secprop2 secprop3 secprop4 weight2 weight
>>> 3 weight4.
>>
>> The offending command resembled:
>> uvis intreg sclifeca2 sclifeca3 sclifeca4 sclddr2 sclddr3 sclddr4
>> iincome2 iincome3 iincome4 education2 occupation2 unemployed2
>> unemployed3
>>> sex2 age2 age3 age4 partner2 partner3 partner4 vehicles2 vehicles3 vehicles4 holiday2 holiday3 holiday4 secprop2 secprop3 secprop4 weight2
>>>  weight3 weight4 , gen([imputed])
>>
>> you may wish to try the -persist- option to persist beyond this error.
>> dumping current data to ./_ice_dump.dta
>> something that should be true of your data is not
>>
>> When I use the "persist" option, the data is imputed, but doesn't set
>> the upper and lower bounds of my variable.
>>
>> Any ideas?!
>>
>> Thanks a lot.
>>
>> Best,
>> Laura
>>
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>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> From   "Renger van Nieuwkoop" <renger@ecoplan.ch>
>> To   <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
>> Subject   st: ICE with intervall
>> Date   Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:02:00 +0200
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Hi
>> I am trying to use ICE with interval imputation (the values are censored
>> and are not allowed to be below 0).
>> I have generated two variables co2_lb (lower bound) = 0 and co2_ub
>> (upper bound) = . and then tried
>> ice c01  c02  c02_lb c02_ub inc_earned, m(5) saving(imputed)
>> interval(c02:c02_lb  c02_ub) replace
>> Without interval I have no problems with ICE, with interval I get the
>> following output (see below).
>> Any idea what I am doing wrongly?
>> Thanks
>> Renger
>>
>>
>>
>> . ice c01  c02  c02_lb c02_ub inc_earned, m(5) saving(imputed)
>> interval(c02:c02_lb  c02_ub) replace
>>
>>    #missing |
>>      values |      Freq.     Percent        Cum.
>> ------------+-----------------------------------
>>           0 |     25,181       85.37       85.37
>>           1 |      3,579       12.13       97.50
>>           2 |        735        2.49      100.00
>>           3 |          1        0.00      100.00
>> ------------+-----------------------------------
>>       Total |     29,496      100.00
>>
>>    Variable | Command | Prediction equation
>> ------------+---------+-------------------------------------------------
>> ------
>>      c02_lb |         | [Lower bound for c02]
>>      c02_ub |         | [Upper bound for c02]
>>         c01 | regress | c02 inc_earned
>>  inc_earned | regress | c01 c02
>>         c02 | intreg  | c01 inc_earned
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> ------
>>
>> Imputing [Note: in regression for c01, permanently removing c02 due to
>> collinearity]
>> [Note: in regression for inc_earned, permanently removing c02 due to
>> collinearity]
>>
>> Error #459 encountered while running -uvis-
>> I detected a problem with running uvis with command intreg on response
>> c02
>> and covariates c01 inc_earned.
>>
>> The offending command resembled:
>> uvis intreg c02 c01 inc_earned , gen([imputed])
>>
>> you may wish to try the -persist- option to persist beyond this error.
>> dumping current data to ./_ice_dump.dta
>> something that should be true of your data is not
>> r(459);
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