RE: st: mi impute chained

[chong shiauyun <shiauyun416@hotmail.com>]

Hi, 

thanks for your advice.
I simplified my MI model by excluding some interactions and reduced some of my variables. It works fine. However, I am concern that I have to use the -force- option  to make the model works. It am quiet reluctant to drop all of the interactions seeing that it may affect the relationship between the exposure and the outcome which I am interested in.

Kind regards
Shiau

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> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 08:20:35 -0400
> Subject: Re: st: mi impute chained
> From: jvverkuilen@gmail.com
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
>
> As I said before, your model is way too complex to troubleshoot. Cut
> down on the number of variables or simplify the imputation model and
> build UP. There are simply too many failure points right now to be
> able to diagnose anything. For instance I seem to recall you're using
> a multinomial logit for a categorical variable. You may have problems
> there. The censored parts may be trouble too. With imputation the goal
> is to get a "good enough" representation of the dataset. So cut down
> to a much simpler model. See if that runs. Then start adding
> components and find out where it fails. Try this a few different ways.
> If it always fails on the same variable that tells you what's wrong.
> I'd also run descriptives and missing data patterns on all variables.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 3:44 AM, chong shiauyun <shiauyun416@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am not sure if I should proceed to imputation or I need to change my dryrun model because in my dryrun, it seems to have some convergence problems. I am not sure how to check which sub-model that caused the convergence problem, even though I have specified -noisily-. The thing is that the iterations keep running something like:
> > Iteration 611: log likelihood = -12162.404 (not concave)
> > Iteration 612: log likelihood = -12162.4 (not concave)
> > Iteration 613: log likelihood = -12162.397 (not concave)
> > Iteration 614: log likelihood = -12162.394 (not concave)
> > Iteration 615: log likelihood = -12162.39 (not concave)
> > Iteration 616: log likelihood = -12162.387 (not concave)
> > Iteration 617: log likelihood = -12162.384 (not concave)
> > Iteration 618: log likelihood = -12162.38 (not concave)
> >
> > Shiau
> >
> > ----------------------------------------
> >> From: ymarchenko@stata.com
> >> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> >> Subject: Re: st: mi impute chained
> >> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 07:21:35 -0500
> >>
> >> Chong Shiauyun <shiauyun416@hotmail.com> receives a "no observation" error
> >> when he runs the following imputation model using -mi impute chained-:
> >>
> >> > . mi impute chained (reg) birthweight (ologit, augment) ednmatpat
> >> > (logit, augment)sex (truncreg, ll(lVIQ) ul(uVIQ))verbiq,
> >> > add(20) rseed(11349730) burnin(50) chainonly dryrun report
> >>
> >> Shiau probably meant to omit the -dryrun- option in the above since
> >> -mi impute chained- does not perform any estimation when the -dryrun- option
> >> is specified.
> >>
> >> The -mi impute chained- command starts off by fitting univariate models on the
> >> observed data to obtain initial imputed values for each imputed variable. The
> >> "no observation" error typically occurs when one of such models contains no
> >> observations and is often caused by the existence of missing values in
> >> variables other than the imputed variables. In Shiau's case, the offending
> >> variables may be -lVIQ- and -uVIQ-.
> >>
> >> Shiau can use the -noisily- option of -mi impute chained- to identify the
> >> particular conditional model for which there are no observations and run this
> >> model manually on the observed data to determine the problem.
> >>
> >> Shiau can also send his data and do file to our technical support group at
> >> tech-support@stata.com to help him identify the problem.
> >>
> >>
> >> -- Yulia
> >> ymarchenko@stata.com
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