R help - Oct 2006 - mitools, multiple imputation

R 2.2.0
windows XP

I am beginning to explore the mitools package contributed by Thomas
Lumley (thank you Thomas) and  I have a few questions:

(1) In the examples given in the mitools documentation, the only family
argument used is family=binomial. Does the package support
family=gaussian and other link functions? I ran the with function with
family=gaussian and I obtained results, but I am not sure if gaussian is
supported by the package, so I don't know if I should trust the values I
obtained.

(2) In the documentation, the smi dataset is used i.e. data(smi). Could
someone tell me how I can print the data associated with smi?

Thanks
John

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On Sat, 14 Oct 2006, John Sorkin wrote:
> R 2.2.0
> windows XP
>
> I am beginning to explore the mitools package contributed by Thomas
> Lumley (thank you Thomas) and  I have a few questions:
>
> (1) In the examples given in the mitools documentation, the only family
> argument used is family=binomial. Does the package support
> family=gaussian and other link functions? I ran the with function with
> family=gaussian and I obtained results, but I am not sure if gaussian is
> supported by the package, so I don't know if I should trust the values
I
> obtained.
Yes, it works with family="gaussian". It isn't even restricted to
glm()s
-- it works with anything that has coef() and vcov() methods
> (2) In the documentation, the smi dataset is used i.e. data(smi). Could
> someone tell me how I can print the data associated with smi?
>
I'm not sure you really want to do that: it is 5 x 12 x 1170

More useful might be str(smi) or with(smi, fun=head)

However, if you do want to, either
  unclass(smi)
or
  with(smi,fun=print)
will work.

 	-thomas

Thomas Lumley			Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle