mice.impute.mean {mice} | R Documentation |
Imputes the arithmetic mean of the observed data
mice.impute.mean(y, ry, x=NULL)
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. |
A vector of length nmis
with imputations.
Imputing the mean of a variable is almost never appropriate. See Little and Rubin (1987).
Stef van Buuren, Karin Oudshoorn, 2000
Van Buuren, S., Groothuis-Oudshoorn, K. (2009) MICE: Multivariate Imputation by Chained Equations in R. Journal of Statistical Software, forthcoming. http://www.stefvanbuuren.nl/publications/MICE in R - Draft.pdf
Little, R.J.A. and Rubin, D.B. (1987). Statistical Analysis with Missing Data. New York: John Wiley and Sons.