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Harvey Goldstein wrote:You seem to have uncovered a bug. I cant be sure but will have a look at this and see if I can see what is happening
Harvey Goldstein

Are there any news on this issue? Thanks for looking into it

In section 3.1.3, Carpenter et al. (2011) (http://missingdata.lshtm.ac.uk/preprints/Carpenter2011.pdf) provide a description of the MCMC estimation settings and make some recommendations on what values to use. I wouldn't be able to comment on the extent to which reducing the burn-in or the gap ...

Hi, I seem to be having a problem when trying to impute ordinal level-2 variables. Within each imputation either all missing observations are assigned the lowest value (1) or (less commonly) only the highest value is imputed. This does not seem to be depend on explanatory variables or correlation ...