Logistic variable error 11 - Amelia

1 Feb 2007

Hi, I set the lgstc to two proportional variables in the range 0-1 
(columns 59 and 60 in the data), yet it gave me an error code. Please see 
below. Any explanation would be useful. Thanks, Anders

...
  ameliaoutput<-amelia(merge6, p2s=2,
idvars=c(3,24,29,37,39,42,54),  noms=c(23, 41), lgstc=c(59,60), ts=1, cs=2)

amelia starting
Amelia Error Code:  11
  The logistic transformation cannot be used on
  variables with values out of the 0-1 range.
...
  summary(merge6[,59:60])   a_norm_total2       
p_norm_total
  Min.   :   0.0000   Min.   :   0.0000
  1st Qu.:   0.0000   1st Qu.:   0.0000
  Median :   0.2000   Median :   0.0000
  Mean   :   0.2480   Mean   :   0.2392
  3rd Qu.:   0.4000   3rd Qu.:   0.4000
  Max.   :   1.0000   Max.   :   0.8300
  NA's   :3431.0000   NA's   :3431.0000
...
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