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Re: st: Multiple Imputation for panel data


From   [email protected] (Brendan Halpin)
To   [email protected]
Subject   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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