Posted by
Maguin, Eugene on
Jul 27, 2012; 1:18pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Imputation-of-categorical-missing-values-tp5714496p5714501.html
Blain,
I'm not familiar with how imputation works in spss. I assume that people working on imputation have written on the problem of categorical variables. I'm not familiar with the literature; perhaps others who are will comment and give citations. Doing it is not too hard. You have to know serious syntax. Look at Ray Levesque's web site, spsstools.net, bottom of the page under missing data, he has a hot deck routine. It may need to be adapted to your situation, or not.
Gene Maguin
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Subject: Imputation of categorical missing values
Hello,
I have a data set that has some categorical variables (both binary outcome variables and variables having more than two categories) and some continuous variables.
I can use SPSS to impute missing values for continuous variables by EM algorithm. But how do I impute missing values for the both types of categorical variables? Is there any macro for doing that?
Note that, I will use the complete data set for a factor analysis. So, multiple imputation may create problems to combine the results of each imputed data set. What is your suggestion in this context? Someone has suggested me hot-deck imputation instead. But how do I do this in SPSS?
Thank you.
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