6 Feb
2003
6 Feb
'03
6:19 p.m.
I'm afraid not. Jamie Robins has some work that makes this possible, but
then your analysis model needs to be specially adjusted.
I'd suggest you have a look at Clarify which will take care of the
combination automatically. It doesn't do factor analyses, but you could
implement the same idea, since the combinations work with any statistic or
quantity of interest.
Gary King
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Claudiu D. Tufis wrote:
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