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Hi Henrik,

I can't find evidence of our knowing about this in Support. I'll be glad to follow up on it.

David Nichols

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Subject: Re: [SPSSX-L] Error in Multiple Imputation PASW 17?

I discovered the same kind of results with Multiple imputation in ordinary GLM. I have reported it to SPSS but haven't received any explanation yet.

Best,
Henrik

Quoting "Ginkel, Joost van" <JGinkel@...>:

> I have tried the Multiple imputation procedure in PASW 17 for
> analyzing a data set with missing values. The procedure is quite user-friendly.
> However, when using the procedure I discovered some strange things
> about the pooled results in the output. The pooled significance tests
> from a regression model sometimes have p-values that are exactly equal
> to 1. I find it hard to believe that these results are correct since
> the p-values of the 5 imputed datasets vary around 0.20. I can imagine
> that SE's increase due to the extra uncertainty because of the missing
> data, but I can't imagine that this p-value increases exactly to one.
> Thus far, I have only seen this occur within the procedure Mixed
> models so I don't know if it occurs in other procedures as well. For
> people who want to see what I mean, I can send the data and the syntax
> file that generated these results, on request.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Joost van Ginkel
>
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