Great suggestion. Is there a convenient ABB routine in SAS or Stata? A 
bivariate version -- X complete, Y incomplete -- would also be welcome....

Sent from my iPhone. 
Please excuse my brevity.

On Jun 6, 2011, at 4:48 PM, Juned Siddique <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> I agree with Dave. An approximate Bayesian bootstrap (ABB) (Rubin 1987, page
> 124; Rubin and Schenker, 1986) will work in this situation.
> 
> -Juned Siddique
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Impute -- Imputations in Data Analysis
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Judkins
> Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 12:22 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Univariate imputation
> 
> Any hotdeck procedure would also do the job.  Solas can implement this.  The
> advantage being not having to make any parametric assumptions.
> 
> http://www.statistical-solutions-software.com/products-page/solas-for-missin
> g-data-analysis/
> 
> --Dave Judkins
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Impute -- Imputations in Data Analysis
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Raghunathan,
> Trivellore
> Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 11:21 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Univariate imputation
> 
> I believe that IVEware will use the normal posterior distribution with
> constant mean, variance if the variableis continuous, binomial/constant
> logit model for binary, Poisson constant mean for count, multinomial for
> categorical etc. It should simply use the regression model with intercept
> term. You should specify the iterations to be 1. 
> 
> (Though, we have never tried for one variable data set!)
> 
> Raghu
> ________________________________________
> From: Impute -- Imputations in Data Analysis
> [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul von Hippel
> [[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 10:26 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Univariate imputation
> 
> To clarify: I have N cases of a single iid variable Y. n<N cases are missing
> the Y value at random. There are no Xs to predict Y, and that rules out most
> imputation software, including IVEware.  What software is available?
> 
> In practice imputation is useless in this situation, but it's important from
> a theoretical point of view.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone.
> Please excuse my brevity.
> 
> On Jun 6, 2011, at 4:56 AM, William Winkler <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
>> univariate imputation - there are additional methods besides the below 
>> two
>> 
>> http://www.isr.umich.edu/src/smp/ive/
>> 
>> http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.96.3441 - 
>> documentation for slice software - need another url for the software
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> From:       Paul von Hippel <[email protected]>
>> 
>> To:         [email protected]
>> 
>> Date:       06/06/2011 05:18 AM
>> 
>> Subject:    Univariate imputation
>> 
>> Sent by:    Impute -- Imputations in Data Analysis
> <[email protected]>
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> It is common in simulations to impute data with only one variable, but 
>> most imputation software assumes that there are at least two 
>> variables. Is software available that carries out univariate imputation?

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