Hello, Matt,
Thanks for your response. In our case, removing the cases with NA is
not really an option because we are imputing for a large number of
variables. For the same reason, the second option of manually coding
back to NA would be quite cumbersome.
Thanks a lot。
Best,
Shanruo
On Jan 25, 2010, at 2:07 PM, Matt Blackwell wrote:
Hi Shanruo,
If you don't want to include the NAs in the analysis at all, you can
remove them from the data and then run the imputation model. You could
also leave them in the imputation, but then change their imputations
back NA manually.
Note that any cell that needs to be imputed must be coded as "NA" (the
missing value code for R). An alternative method would be to code all
NAs as another category of the variable which is observed. Only DKs
would then be missing.
Hope that helps,
matt.
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Shanruo Ning Zhang <nizhang(a)calpoly.edu
> wrote:
> Hello, Amelia authors and users,
> My co-author and I wonder whether we could separate different types
> of
> missing data when using Amelia, namely the Don't Knows and the
> Non-applicable's. We wonder whether it is possible that we could
> impute
> values for the DKs and not impute for NAs.
> Thank you very much. we have been really enjoying Amelia!
> Best,
> Shanruo Ning Zhang
> Assistant Professor
> Political Science, California Polytechnic State University, San
> Luis Obispo
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