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Post-estimation after mi estimate: mimrgns error

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2017 10:16 pm
by amarkovitz
Hello all,

I have used the very helpful posts here to run runmlwin after multiple imputation using mi estimate. However, I need to make out-of-sample predictions after this procedure and have found that mimgrns from SSC is one of the few (or only?) possible way to do this despite some caveats to the standard errors produced, which I'm aware of. However, running mimrgns after runmlwin produces the following error:
"variable var not found
an error occurred when mi estimate executed mimrgns_estimate on m=1"

Does anyone know of tricks to use runmlwin and mimrgns in conjunction or of another way to do out-of-sample prediction after mi estimate + runmlwin? It seems that doing it by hand and applying Rubin's rules would be prohibitively difficult, especially in the case of my rather complicated dataset.

Re: Post-estimation after mi estimate: mimrgns error

Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2017 5:01 pm
by amarkovitz
To close out this topic (unless anyone has advice), I believe the following post answers my question about whether mimargins can be used in conjunction with runmlwin. The answer is no.
https://www.cmm.bristol.ac.uk/forum/vie ... edb4#p4431

It sounds like I would have to do it using first principles which is too time consuming for this project or I can use the much slower built in Stata multilevel modeling commands in conjunction with mimgrns.