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# st: re: management of missing

 From Christopher Baum To statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu Subject st: re: management of missing Date Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:38:40 -0500

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Rodrigo said


My question to the list is if Stata allows you to avoid dropping observations based on the listwise criteria. I want to know this because maybe this will be a possible solution for raising the sample where the estimations are based.


No, for obvious reasons. Consider linear regression, where you calculate X'X. Consider an X matrix, N x k, with some random elements of each column missing. What does it mean to calculate sums of squares and cross products of such a matrix? Calculating those sums over only the feasible (pairwise) terms will not give you anything sensible except in the limit, and even asymptotically, if the proportion of missing data is fixed, driving N -> \infty probably won't help.


It sounds like you might be a good candidate for Stata's new manual on Multiple Imputation.

Kit

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