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Re: st: Multiple Imputation for panel data
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brendan.halpin@ul.ie (Brendan Halpin)
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Re: st: Multiple Imputation for panel data
Date
Wed, 23 Feb 2011 10:46:09 +0000
On Wed, Feb 23 2011, Clive Nicholas wrote:
> For what my €0.02 is worth, I tend to discriminate against any use of
> multiply imputation on the basis that you are generating data that
> isn't really there.
Not true. You're using information that would otherwise be discarded
(non-missing variables on cases with some missing data) at the expense
of making assumptions about the distribution of the missing data.
Brendan
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