similar to: missing data imputation

Hi all, A short while ago I asked a question about multiple imputation and I got several helpful replies, thanks! I have untill now tried to use the packages mice and norm but both give me errors however. mice does not even run to start with and gives me the following error right away: iter imp variable 1 1 Liquidity.ratioError in chol((v + t(v))/2) : the leading minor of order 1 is not

I am desperately trying to impute missing data using 'imp.mix' but always run into this yucky error message to which I cannot find the solution. It's the first time I am using mix and I'm trying really hard to understand, but there's just this one step I don't get...perhaps someone knows the answer? Thanks! Jens My code runs:

Dear Professor Schaefer I am experiencing a technical difficulty with your mix package. I would appreciate it if you could help me with this problem. When I run the following code, R 2.5.1 and R 2.6.0 crashes. It's been tested on at least 2 windows machine and it is consistent. Execution code it's self was coped from the help file of imp.mix. Only thing I supplied was a fake dataset.

Dear alltogether, I experience very strange behavior of imputation of NA's with the NORM library. I use R 2.2.0, win32. The code is below and the same dataset was also tried with MICE and aregImpute() from HMISC _without_ any problem. The problem is as follows: (1) using the whole dataset results in very strange imputations - values far beyond the maximum of the respective column, >

I'm looking for a package that has a start-of-the-art method of imputation of missing values in a data frame with both continuous and factor columns. I've found transcan() in 'Hmisc', which appears to be possibly suited to my needs, but I haven't been able to figure out how to get a new data frame with the imputed values replaced (I don't have Herrell's book). Any

Greetings! I am bootstrapping and I am using EM in the norm package to fill in missing data for a financial time series with each step of the loop. For the most part EM works fine for me, but the following error message is guaranteed before I hit the 200th scenario: Iterations of EM: 1...2...3........348...349...Error: NA/NaN/Inf in foreign function call (arg 2) The following code should

Hello, I have a general question about combining imputations as well as a question specific to the rms and Hmisc packages. The situation is multiple regression on a data set where multiple imputation has been used to give M imputed data sets. I know how to get the combined estimate of the covariance matrix of the estimated coefficients (average the M covariance matrices from the individual

Dear list, I'd like to use multiple imputations to try and save a somewhat badly mangled dataset (lousy data collection, worse than lousy monitoring, you know that drill... especially when I am consulted for the first time about one year *after* data collection). My dataset has 231 observations of 53 variables, of which only a very few has no missing data. Most variables have 5-10% of

I'm trying to use either mice or norm to perform multiple imputation to fill in some missing values in my data. The data has some missing values because of a chemical detection limit (so they are left censored). I'd like to use MI because I have several variables that are highly correlated. In SAS's proc MI, there is an option with which you can limit the imputed values that are

Hello R experts I am using Hmisc aregImpute and Impute (following example on page 105 of The Hmisc and Design Libraries). *My end goal is to have NAs physically replaced in my dataframe. I have read the help pages and example in above sited pdf file, but to no avail. Here is example of what I did. Ph, my data frame, is attached. > xt <- aregImpute (~ q5 + q22rev02 + q28a, n.impute=10,

Hello all I'm running da.norm function in R for climate data rngseed(1234567) theta1=da.norm(mydata, thetahat, steps=1000,showits=T) param1=getparam.norm(mydata,theta1) As I understand the 1000 steps represent the markov chain values. Is there a way to plot them? Something like plot(1:1000, param1$mu[]). I just can't find a way to extract them out of my theta1. Thank you, Andrey.

  I have timeseries data for some factors, and some missing values are there in those factors, I want impute those missing values without disturbing the distribution of that factor, and maintaining the correlation with other factors. Pl. suggest me some imputation methods. I tried some functions in R like aregImpute, transcan. After the imputation I am unable to retrive the data with imputed

I am doing multiple imputation with Hmisc, and can't figure out how to replace the NA values with the imputed values. Here's a general ourline of the process: > set.seed(23) > library("mice") > library("Hmisc") > library("Design") > d <- read.table("DailyDataRaw_01.txt",header=T) > length(d);length(d[,1]) [1] 43 [1] 2666

I am conducting a simulation study generating multivariate normal data, deleting observations to create a data set with missing values and then using multiple imputation via da.norm in Schafer's norm package. >From da.norm, I get the following error message: "Error: NA/NaN/Inf in foreign function call (arg 2)" The frequency of the error message seems to depend on the ratio of n

Hi all, I'm currently working with a dataset that has quite a few missing values and after some investigation I figured that multiple imputation is probably the best solution to handle the missing data in my case. I found several references to functions in S-Plus that perform multiple imputation (NORM, CAT, MIX, PAN). Does R have corresponding functions? I searched the archives but was not

I am a new user of R for Windows, enthusiast about the many functions of the Design and Hmisc libraries. I combined the results of a Cox regression model after multiple imputation (of missing values in some covariates). Now I got my vector of coefficients (and of standard errors). My question is: How could I use directly that vector to run programs such as 'nomogram', 'calibrate',

Dear all; I am trying to use HMISC imputation function to perform multiple imputations on my data and I keep on getting errors for the code given in the help files. When using "aregImpute" the error is; >f <- aregImpute(~y + x1 + x2 + x3, n.impute=100) Loading required package: acepack Iteration:1 Error in .Fortran("wclosepw", as.double(w), as.double(x),

Hello R-help, Thanks for everyone's very helpful suggestions so far. I am now trying to use aregImpute for my missing data imputation. Here are the code and error messages. Any suggestions would be very much appreciated. Sincerely, Anders Corr ######################################## #Question for R-Help on aregImpute ######################################## #DOWNLOAD DATA (61Kb)

Dear R-users, I want to multiple impute missing scores, but only for a few subgroups in my data (variable 'subgroups': only impute for subgroups 2 and 3). Does anyone knows how to do this in MICE? This is my script for the multiple imputation: imp <- mice(data, m=20, predictorMatrix=pred, post=post, method=c("", "", "", "",

Hi Folks, I'm currently looking at missing data/imputation methods (including multiple imputation). S-Plus has a "missing data library". What similar resources are available within R? Or does one roll one's own? Best wishes to all, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding at nessie.mcc.ac.uk>