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我将数据集分为男性和女性,然后使用mice包分别估算。

#Generate predictormatrix
pred_gender_0<-quickpred(data_gender_0, include=c("age","weight_trunc"),exclude=c("ID","X","gender"),mincor = 0.1)
pred_gender_1<-quickpred(data_gender_1, include=c("age","weight_trunc"),exclude=c("ID","X","gender"),mincor = 0.1)

#impute the data with mice 
imp_pred_gen0 <- mice(data_gender_0,
                 pred=pred_gender_0,
                 m=10,
                 maxit=5,            
                 diagnostics=TRUE,
                 MaxNWts=3000) #i had to set this to 3000 because of an problematic unordered categorical variable 

imp_pred_gen1 <- mice(data_gender_1,
                 pred=pred_gender_1,
                 m=10,
                 maxit=5,            
                 diagnostics=TRUE,
                 MaxNWts=3000)

现在,我有两个包含 10 个估算数据集的对象。一个给男人,一个给女人。我的问题是,如何将它们结合起来?通常,我只会使用:

comp_imp<-complete(imp,"long")

我是不是该:

  1. 用于rbind.mids()合并男性和女性的数据,然后将其转换为长格式?
  2. 我应该先转换为长格式然后使用rbind.mids()orrbind()吗?

感谢您的任何提示!=)

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更新 - 可重现的示例

library("dplyr")
library("mice")

# We use nhanes-dataset from the mice-package as example

# first: combine age-category 2 and 3 to get two groups (as example)
nhanes$age[nhanes$age == 3] <- "2"
nhanes$age<-as.numeric(nhanes$age)
nhanes$hyp<-as.factor(nhanes$hyp)

#split data into two groups
nhanes_age_1<-nhanes %>% filter(age==1)
nhanes_age_2<-nhanes %>% filter(age==2)

#generate predictormatrix
pred1<-quickpred(nhanes_age_1, mincor=0.1, inc=c('age','bmi'), exc='chl')
pred2<-quickpred(nhanes_age_2, mincor=0.1, inc=c('age','bmi'), exc='chl')

# seperately impute data
set.seed(121012)
imp_gen1 <- mice(nhanes_age_1,
                 pred=pred1,
                 m=10,
                 maxit=5,            
                 diagnostics=TRUE,
                 MaxNWts=3000)

imp_gen2 <- mice(nhanes_age_2,
                 pred=pred2,
                 m=10,
                 maxit=5,            
                 diagnostics=TRUE,
                 MaxNWts=3000)


#------ ALTERNATIVE 1:

#combine imputed data
combined_imp<-rbind.mids(imp_gen1,imp_gen2)
complete_imp<-complete(combined_imp,"long")

#output
   > combined_imp<-rbind.mids(imp_gen1,imp_gen2)
Warning messages:
1: In rbind.mids(imp_gen1, imp_gen2) :
  Predictormatrix is not equal in x and y; y$predictorMatrix is ignored
.
2: In x$visitSequence == y$visitSequence :
  longer object length is not a multiple of shorter object length
3: In rbind.mids(imp_gen1, imp_gen2) :
  Visitsequence is not equal in x and y; y$visitSequence is ignored
.
   
> complete_imp<-complete(combined_imp,"long")
Error in inherits(x, "mids") : object 'combined_imp' not found


#------ ALTERNATIVE 2:

complete_imp1<-complete(imp_gen1,"long")
complete_imp2<-complete(imp_gen2,"long")
combined_imp<-rbind.mids(complete_imp1,complete_imp2)

#Output
> complete_imp1<-complete(imp_gen1,"long")
> complete_imp2<-complete(imp_gen2,"long")
> combined_imp<-rbind.mids(complete_imp1,complete_imp2)
Error in if (ncol(y) != ncol(x$data)) stop("The two datasets do not have the same number of columns\n") : 
  argument is of length zero
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3 回答 3

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您可以使用以下内容创建一个新的 mids 对象,其中包含 10 个男性和女性的估算数据集。

comp_imp <- rbind(pred_gender_0, pred_gender_1)

这样做会调用 rbind.mids,而不是 R 中的常规绑定函数。返回的新对象可以按通常的方式进行分析,例如使用 with.mids 将所需模型拟合到每个估算数据集。

于 2020-08-10T10:50:36.747 回答
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老实说,我对包装一无所知,mice对插补的概念只有一个模糊的想法。

我不知道你想进行什么样的分析,但你说通常你会这样做:comp_imp<-complete(imp,"long"),所以我会尝试相应地回答。

对我来说,第一种方法返回一个 data.frame,但没有任何遗漏。complete(imp_gen1,"long")这很奇怪,因为hyp. 我不知道那里rbind.mids在做什么。

因此,我会采用您的第二种方法。

来自的结果complete(., "long")是一个普通的 data.frame,因此不需要将它绑定到rbind.mids.

我会将您的第二种方法更改为:

library(dplyr)
complete_imp1 <- complete(imp_gen1, "long")
complete_imp2 <- complete(imp_gen2, "long")
combined_imp <- bind_rows(complete_imp1, complete_imp2)
于 2015-05-04T09:33:16.217 回答
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complete_imp1 <- complete(imp_gen1, "long")已经返回了 10 个(m参数)估算数据帧,只需计算总行数complete_imp1并乘以m

于 2017-04-17T16:37:16.270 回答