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| From | brendan.halpin@ul.ie (Brendan Halpin) |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| 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 -- Brendan Halpin, Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, Ireland Tel: w +353-61-213147 f +353-61-202569 h +353-61-338562; Room F1-009 x 3147 mailto:brendan.halpin@ul.ie http://www.ul.ie/sociology/brendan.halpin.html * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/