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R: Imputation by simple random sampling

mice.impute.sample

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Imputation by simple random sampling

Description

Imputes a random sample from the observed y data

Usage

mice.impute.sample(y, ry, x = NULL, ...)

Arguments

`y`	Incomplete data vector of length `n`
`ry`	Vector of missing data pattern (`FALSE`=missing, `TRUE`=observed)
`x`	Matrix (`n` x `p`) of complete covariates.
`...`	Other named arguments.

Details

This function takes a simple random sample from the observed values in y, and returns these as imputations.

Value

A vector of length nmis with imputations.

Author(s)

Stef van Buuren, Karin Groothuis-Oudshoorn, 2000

References

van Buuren S and Groothuis-Oudshoorn K (2011). mice: Multivariate Imputation by Chained Equations in R. Journal of Statistical Software, 45(3), 1-67. http://www.jstatsoft.org/v45/i03/