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Re: st: Multiple imputation int() option in ICE
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Maarten buis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Multiple imputation int() option in ICE
Date
Thu, 18 Nov 2010 10:56:49 +0000 (GMT)
--- On Thu, 18/11/10, Alberto Osella wrote:
> I wish to impute a data set wit missing data in several
> variables of diferente type; one of them (BMI) is a
> continuos variables with a normal distribution. Obviuosly I
> should to bound BMI because there are some impossible values
> as 0 or 1000.
Strictly speaking, the presence of these bounds means that the
distribution is not normally distributed. An alternative way of
ensuring the bounds is to specify the -match- option. I think I
remembered that there was quite a discussion on it in the Stata
Journal articles that accompanied ice, see:
<www.stata-journal.com>
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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