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RE: st: Multiple imputation int() option in ICE
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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"'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
Subject
RE: st: Multiple imputation int() option in ICE
Date
Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:22:49 +0000
I don't know for sure what this means.
If you mean that you intend to treat BMI as if it were normal, even though you know that is wrong, then I suggest at some point you need to evaluate the effects of that incorrect assumption.
I don't work in this field, but like virtually everybody else I know what BMI is. I wouldn't want to treat BMI as normal unless there was overwhelming evidence that that was an accurate assumption.
Nick
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Alberto Osella
Thanks Nick four your answer. My minimun and maximun values are
indicated in the code. Obviously and stricktly speaking as said Maarten
BMI is not perfectly normally distributed but it smeems to be normally
distributed.
Nick Cox
> It sounds to me as if there are several issues conflated here.
>
> It comes as a surprise to hear that BMI is normally distributed. Is it really true?
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