Suzy:
You wanted to create missingness according the to a MAR process, in your case the probability of
missingness in the variable bmi should depend on the variable age. So we created the probability
of missingness for each observation. The youngest person in your dataset has a probablity of
missingness of invlogit(-8 + .1*28) = .0054863 (type -di invlogit(-8 + .1*28)-) and the oldest
person has a missingness of invlogit(-8 + .1*82) = .549834. If the probability of missingness was
constant (or random and unrelated to any of the other variables) than the missingness mechanism
would be missing completely at random MCAR.
HTH,
Maarten
--- Suzy <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm not sure what the implications are of the std dev and the
> max values of p (.549).
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