miceadds (version 1.6-0)

mids2mlwin: 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.

Examples

# imputation nhanes data
data(nhanes)
imp <- mice(nhanes)
# write files to MLwiN
mids2mlwin(imp, file.prefix="nhanes" )