miceadds (version 2.2-0)

write.mice.imputation: Export Multiply Imputed Datasets from a mids Object

Description

Exports multiply imputed datasets and information about the imputation. Objects of class mids (generated by mice::mice) and mids.1chain (generated by mice.1chain) are supported.

Usage

write.mice.imputation(mi.res, name, include.varnames = TRUE, long = TRUE, mids2spss = TRUE, spss.dec = ",", dattype = NULL)

Arguments

mi.res

Object of class mids or mids.1chain

name

Name of created subdirectory and datasets

include.varnames

An optional logical indicating whether variable names should be included in the imputed dataset. The default is TRUE.

long

An optional logical indicating whether the dataset should also be saved in a long format?

mids2spss

An optional logical indicating whether a syntax for reading imputed datasets in SPSS should be included

spss.dec

SPSS decimal separator (can be "," or ".")

dattype

Format of the saved dataset: csv or csv2

Value

Several files are saved using impxxx (the name) as the prefix:

See Also

See also mice::mids2mplus and mice::mids2spss

Examples

## Not run: 
# #############################################################################
# # EXAMPLE 1: Imputation of nhanes data and write imputed datasets on disk
# #############################################################################
# 
# data(nhanes,package="mice")
# 
# #**********
# # Model 1: Imputation using mice
# imp1 <- mice::mice( nhanes , m=3 , maxit=5 )
# # write results
# write.mice.imputation(mi.res=imp1 , name="mice_imp1" )
# 
# #**********
# # Model 2: Imputation using mice.1chain
# imp2 <- mice.1chain( nhanes , burnin=10 , iter=20 , Nimp=4 )
# # write results
# write.mice.imputation(mi.res=imp2 , name="mice_imp2" )
# ## End(Not run)