Re: st: Multiple imputation combined with collapse

[Richard Williams <richardwilliams.ndu@gmail.com>]

At 12:07 PM 7/30/2011, Chris Parker wrote:
> Hi Statalist,
>
> I have a question about multiple imputation. I have missing data in one
> of my variables, x in the example below, which I then create several
> passive variables for. I then collapse the data and try to run a
> regression but the collapsed passive variables based on x are identical
> to the collapsed original x variable. Does anyone know what I am doing
> wrong here? I tried searching in [MI] but found no reference to
> -collapse- which I take as a sign that I cannot do what I am trying to
> do. Is -mi- unable to handle collapse?

I don't know the answer to your question, but I do know that at least 
some people think passive imputation is a bad idea. Instead, you 
should compute the variables in your original data set, and then let 
their missing values be imputed (which is wildly counter-intuitive 
but seems to work better). See

http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2009-02/msg00602.html

http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2009-02/msg00613.html


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