mice.impute.polr: Imputation of ordered data by polytomous regression

Description

Imputes missing data in a categorical variable using polytomous regression

Usage

mice.impute.polr(
  y,
  ry,
  x,
  wy = NULL,
  nnet.maxit = 100,
  nnet.trace = FALSE,
  nnet.MaxNWts = 1500,
  polr.to.loggedEvents = FALSE,
  ...
)

Value

Vector with imputed data, same type as y, and of length sum(wy)

Arguments

y: Vector to be imputed
ry: Logical vector of length length(y) indicating the the subset y[ry] of elements in y to which the imputation model is fitted. The ry generally distinguishes the observed (TRUE) and missing values (FALSE) in y.
x: Numeric design matrix with length(y) rows with predictors for y. Matrix x may have no missing values.
wy: Logical vector of length length(y). A TRUE value indicates locations in y for which imputations are created.
nnet.maxit: Tuning parameter for nnet().
nnet.trace: Tuning parameter for nnet().
nnet.MaxNWts: Tuning parameter for nnet().
polr.to.loggedEvents: A logical indicating whether each fallback to the multinom() function should be written to loggedEvents. The default is FALSE.
...: Other named arguments.

Author

Stef van Buuren, Karin Groothuis-Oudshoorn, 2000-2010

Details

The function mice.impute.polr() imputes for ordered categorical response variables by the proportional odds logistic regression (polr) model. The function repeatedly applies logistic regression on the successive splits. The model is also known as the cumulative link model.

By default, ordered factors with more than two levels are imputed by mice.impute.polr.

The algorithm of mice.impute.polr uses the function polr() from the MASS package.

In order to avoid bias due to perfect prediction, the algorithm augment the data according to the method of White, Daniel and Royston (2010).

The call to polr might fail, usually because the data are very sparse. In that case, multinom is tried as a fallback. If the local flag polr.to.loggedEvents is set to TRUE, a record is written to the loggedEvents component of the mids object. Use mice(data, polr.to.loggedEvents = TRUE) to set the flag.

References

Van Buuren, S., Groothuis-Oudshoorn, K. (2011). mice: Multivariate Imputation by Chained Equations in R. Journal of Statistical Software, 45(3), 1-67. tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.18637/jss.v045.i03")

Brand, J.P.L. (1999) Development, implementation and evaluation of multiple imputation strategies for the statistical analysis of incomplete data sets. Dissertation. Rotterdam: Erasmus University.

White, I.R., Daniel, R. Royston, P. (2010). Avoiding bias due to perfect prediction in multiple imputation of incomplete categorical variables. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 54, 2267-2275.

Venables, W.N. & Ripley, B.D. (2002). Modern applied statistics with S-Plus (4th ed). Springer, Berlin.