Dear Dr. King,

I am using Amelia for Windows.

As I understand it, the usual sequence of steps is imputation – analysis – combination. Is it possible to combine the datasets before analysis?

What I want to do is to replace the missing values, then combine all datasets into a single dataset (by averaging) and then perform the analyses.

I need to do this because I want to create a factor score out of eight indicators and then use the score in further analyses.

Is this an appropriate way of using Amelia?

I would appreciate any ideas.

Thank you,

Claudiu Tufis