Re: Multiple imputation question

Posted by Kirill Orlov on
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Multiple-imputation-question-tp5740383p5740387.html

--> Can spss produce a single data set that might be described as what
some call, “stochastic regression imputation,” which is where missing
values are predicted by non-missing values within the data, but an
random error term is then subsequently applied? In other words, can the
MI procedure in SPSS be set to produce only a single dataset?//

By the definition of multiple imputation, no single dataset (with or
without the "stochastic" errors added) can correspond to the pooled
statistics and their st. errors (regression coeff-s, etc.) produced by
MI. If it were possible, no one would be busy generating multiple
imputed datasets.

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