Re: st: Imputing for missing proportions

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

I haven't looked at whether it mixes with -mi-, but -glm- with
-link(logit)- is a standard way to handle continuous proportions.

Nick
njcoxstata@gmail.com


On 12 April 2013 11:08, Geomina Turlea <geomina@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> Maarten,
> Thank you very much for your answer.
> The problem with -mi impute - is that it does not really have an option for regressing proportions. I can't really use truncated regression, and my dependent variable is not binary or categorial, but a continous variable betwen 0 and 1.
> I am considering to simulate the multiple imputation with a beta regression for estimation of the missing values.
> Very gratefull for an yes/no opinion on this,
> Geomina
>
>
> --- On Thu, 4/11/13, Maarten Buis <maartenlbuis@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Maarten Buis <maartenlbuis@gmail.com>

Geomina Turlea wrote:

>> > I am fighting for a while with estimate missing data
>> for the share of ICT professionals/total employment, in 59
>> industries, 27 EU countries and for 14 years.
>> > This data exists in the European Labour Force Survey,
>> but the dataset is incomplete.
>> >
>> > 1. Can I use mi impute with proportions?
>> > 2. I used betafit to fit a distribution with values
>> between 0 and 1. Than I imputed the missing values from the
>> estimated beta distribution. Is this method
>> superior/inferior to using mi impute?
>> > 3. I tried to use the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, but I
>> don't know what I got wrong. Below is a sequence where I
>> created a variable with the distribution beta and then test
>> the hypothesis with the K-S test. The test rejects the null
>> hypothesis that the data has the distribution I used to
>> create it. How could that be?
>> >
>> > . gen x=rbeta(0.05, 1.77)
>> > . ksmirnov x=rbeta(0.05, 1.77)

>> My first step would be to look at the industries with
>> missing values.
>> Sometimes missing just means 0 or negligable, and looking at
>> the
>> industries would give you a fair guess of whether that is
>> the case. If
>> that is the case your imputation problem reduces to just a
>> recoding
>> problem.
>>
>> For questions 2 and 3: If you have an imputation problem,
>> then you
>> should use -mi- and not -betafit- (available from SSC),
>> because that
>> is what -mi- was designed for.
>>
>> For question 3: -rbeta()- gives you random numbers from a
>> beta
>> distribution, so that is definately not something you want
>> to feed in
>> -ksmirnov-. I just would use either -margdistfit- or
>> -hangroot- (also
>> available from SSC) after -betafit- to check the fit.
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