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R: Export 'mids' object to MLwiN

mids2mlwin

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Export `mids` object to MLwiN

Description

Converts a mids object into a format recognized by the multilevel software MLwiN.

Usage

mids2mlwin(imp, file.prefix, path = getwd(), sep = " ", dec = ".", silent = FALSE,
   X = NULL)

Arguments

`imp`	The `imp` argument is an object of class `mids`, typically produced by the `mice()` function.
`file.prefix`	A character string describing the prefix of the output data files.
`path`	A character string containing the path of the output file. By default, files are written to the current `R` working directory.
`sep`	The separator between the data fields.
`dec`	The decimal separator for numerical data.
`silent`	A logical flag stating whether the names of the files should be printed.
`X`	Optional data frame of variables to be included in imputed datasets.

Value

The return value is NULL.

Author(s)

Thorsten Henke <mail@thorstenluka.de>

Examples

## Not run: 
# imputation nhanes data
data(nhanes)
imp <- mice::mice(nhanes)
# write files to MLwiN
mids2mlwin(imp, file.prefix="nhanes" )

## End(Not run)

Export mids object to MLwiN