help realcomImputeLoad

Title

realcomImputeLoad Load imputed data from Realcom Impute

Syntax

realcomImputeLoad

Description

realcomImputeLoad loads imputed datasets which have been created using
the Realcom Impute package.

Remarks

Along with datasets corresponding to multiple imputations of your data, the
Realcom Impute package creates a file called impvals.txt, which contains
details of the imputed datasets. realcomImputeLoad looks in Stata's
current working directory for this file - you should therefore make sure
that Stata's working directory is set to the one where the imputations from
Realcom were saved.

realcomImputeLoad should be called with the dataset with missing values
already loaded in Stata. realcomImputeLoad reads in the imputed dataset,
combines them into one file, and adds them to the original dataset. realcomImputeLoad
makes use of Stata 11's facilities for multiple imputation, and stores the imputed
data in so called wide form - see mi_styles.

After loading the imputed datasets using realcomImputeLoad, analyses can
be performed using the mi_estimate command. For a list of the estimation
methods which can be used, see mi_estimation.

When mi setting the data, realcomImputeLoad treats each variable which was
specified as responses in Realcom Impute as an 'imputed' variable. Therefore,
if you specified responses which had no missing data, these will be listed as 'imputed',
variables but with zero imputed values.

Author

Jonathan Bartlett
jwb133@googlemail.com
www.thestatsgeek.com
www.missingdata.org.uk

Also see

realcomImpute