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RE: st: Missingness
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Zachary Levy <[email protected]>
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RE: st: Missingness
Date
Tue, 28 Aug 2012 13:15:32 +0000
As Nick suggested, if you have a significant number of response variables missing and your explanatory variables are not, then you can develop a model to look for some pattern to the missingness.
The reason you might do this is to drop the observations with missing variables more comfortably with the claim that they are missing at random, which makes your results more defensible. If your findings show that there is a significant relationship between your explanatory variables and the probability of being missing, then your regression results will be biased for the ordered logit (or some other approach) model that you are specifying with the Likert scale.
Zach
My views do not neccesarily reflect the views of my employer.
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 4:56 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: Missingness
You have therefore observations with missing values on your response or outcome variable. It doesn't matter what extra predictors you cook up, so far as I can see, as you can't include such observations in your main model. That doesn't rule out some comparison of people included in the model and people not included in the model. One way to do that is an extra model, say logit of (missing or not on outcome) on predictors in model, which may be what you have been reading about.
Nick
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Brendan Churchill <[email protected]> wrote:
> sorry I wasn't very clear
>
> I have ordinal measures on a Likert scale 1-7 as my dependent variables, which I am treating as interval for the purposes of analysis. There are some negative values on these measures which indicate that a respondent either gave more than one answer on the measure or did not complete this section of the survey. I usually recode these as missing =.
>
> I don't think I should treat them as zero because wouldn't' that affect my interpretation of the dependent variable?
>
> Thanks for the response
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
> Sent: Tuesday, 28 August 2012 6:07 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: st: Missingness
>
> Your strategy isn't clear. Regardless of whether or how you use an extra missingness variable, how do you expect Stata to treat the missing values in the variables you already have? Also, are the ordinal predictors being treated as ordinal? Is the response ordinal and does it include missing values too? One way forward is to treat "missing" as just another category with its own code, but that would seem to oblige you to treat such variables as nominal (in practice as equivalent indicator variables) -- unless somehow you know that "missing" always means "very big" or "very small" or "zero" and so can be placed or one end or within the order.
>
> Nick
>
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 8:42 AM, Brendan Churchill <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I am using some ordinal variables, which have some numeric missing values, in a multilevel model. In some previous research, I have seen researchers include a 'Missing' independent variable in their model to account for some of the 'missingness' - or rather to control for the missing values, but I don't quite understand how to do it in Stata or even if that's a good way to do it. I've tried to make a binary variable in which the missing values are coded 1 and the rest of the values are coded 0 but the model rejects this because it's collinear.
>>
>> Is this how you do it? Or is there a variable for the entire data set that is created to account for all missing variables?
>>
>> I'd great appreciate any advice or assistance anyone out there could
>> provide
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