Multivariate Imputation by Chained Equations (Iteration Step)

Takes a mids object, and produces a new object of class mids.

mice.mids(obj, newdata = NULL, maxit = 1, printFlag = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

obj	An object of class mids, typically produces by a previous call to mice() or mice.mids()
newdata	An optional data.frame for which multiple imputations are generated according to the model in obj.
maxit	The number of additional Gibbs sampling iterations.
printFlag	A Boolean flag. If TRUE, diagnostic information during the Gibbs sampling iterations will be written to the command window. The default is TRUE.
...	Named arguments that are passed down to the univariate imputation functions.

Details

This function enables the user to split up the computations of the Gibbs sampler into smaller parts. This is useful for the following reasons:

• RAM memory may become easily exhausted if the number of iterations is large. Returning to prompt/session level may alleviate these problems.

• The user can compute customized convergence statistics at specific points, e.g. after each iteration, for monitoring convergence. - For computing a 'few extra iterations'.

Note: The imputation model itself is specified in the mice() function and cannot be changed with mice.mids. The state of the random generator is saved with the mids object.

References

Van Buuren, S., Groothuis-Oudshoorn, K. (2011). mice: Multivariate Imputation by Chained Equations in R. Journal of Statistical Software, 45(3), 1-67. https://www.jstatsoft.org/v45/i03/

See also

complete, mice, set.seed, mids

Author

Stef van Buuren, Karin Groothuis-Oudshoorn, 2000

Examples

imp1 <- mice(nhanes, maxit = 1, seed = 123)
#> 
#>  iter imp variable
#>   1   1  bmi  hyp  chl
#>   1   2  bmi  hyp  chl
#>   1   3  bmi  hyp  chl
#>   1   4  bmi  hyp  chl
#>   1   5  bmi  hyp  chl
imp2 <- mice.mids(imp1)
#> 
#>  iter imp variable
#>   2   1  bmi  hyp  chl
#>   2   2  bmi  hyp  chl
#>   2   3  bmi  hyp  chl
#>   2   4  bmi  hyp  chl
#>   2   5  bmi  hyp  chl

# yields the same result as
imp <- mice(nhanes, maxit = 2, seed = 123)
#> 
#>  iter imp variable
#>   1   1  bmi  hyp  chl
#>   1   2  bmi  hyp  chl
#>   1   3  bmi  hyp  chl
#>   1   4  bmi  hyp  chl
#>   1   5  bmi  hyp  chl
#>   2   1  bmi  hyp  chl
#>   2   2  bmi  hyp  chl
#>   2   3  bmi  hyp  chl
#>   2   4  bmi  hyp  chl
#>   2   5  bmi  hyp  chl

# verification
identical(imp$imp, imp2$imp)
#> [1] TRUE
#