I would like to impute a variable that counts the number of delinquent acts an individual engaged in in the last year.  The variable will be used as an outcome and has a 0-inflated distribution so it will need to have all integer values if it is to be analyzed in a 0 inflated model.<div>
Does anyone have thoughts on whether it&#39;s better to 1. impute this variable as ordinal in order to obtain all integer values versus 2. impute as continuous and recode the values to integers after imputation?<br clear="all">
<div><br></div>-- <br><div>Alicia Doyle Lynch, Ph.D.</div><div>Boston College, Lynch School of Education</div><div>Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology</div><div>Chestnut Hill, MA 02467</div><div>Phone: (617) 552-6437</div>
<div>e-mail: <a href="mailto:doylead@bc.edu" target="_blank">doylead@bc.edu</a></div>
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