R help - Oct 2011 - getting basic descriptive stats off multiple imputation data

Hi, all,
I'm running multiple imputation to handle missing data and I'm running
into a problem. I can generate the MI data sets in both amelia and the mi
package (they look fine), but I can't figure out how to get pooled results.
The examples from the mi package, zelig, etc., all seem to go right to something
like a regression, though all I want are the mean and SE for all the variables
in the data set, and the cov and for among them. How would I request those basic
descriptives (using mi, zelig, or any other package).
Thanks!
Mike

Mike,

You can retrieve each of imputed data sets and use Rubin's rule for
combined analysis. I am not sure how to do combined analysis of cov,
but mean and SE would be estimiable.

For mi package to get individual copies of imputed data

 ?mi.completed

HTH

Weidong Gu

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Michael Parent <michael.parent at
ufl.edu> wrote:
> Hi, all,
> I'm running multiple imputation to handle missing data and I'm
running into a problem. I can generate the MI data sets in both amelia and the
mi package (they look fine), but I can't figure out how to get pooled
results. The examples from the mi package, zelig, etc., all seem to go right to
something like a regression, though all I want are the mean and SE for all the
variables in the data set, and the cov and for among them. How would I request
those basic descriptives (using mi, zelig, or any other package).
> Thanks!
> Mike
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