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Ok. I programmeed SAS to produce to proper type of file for input into REALCOM. I tried running it with my missing value (9999) and, as before, only got imputations for my continuous variables. I changed my missing value to the default (-9.999e29) and the categorical variables imputed as well. Howev...

I need to know what kind of marker is used at the end of each record. Is it a carriage return or something else?

I solved part of the problem. I went into the variable selection and instead of accepting the defaults, I manually selected the variables and it imputed the continuous variables. The categorical variables were still missing, however. My categorical variables are binary and unordered multicategory va...

I tinkered with this and fianlly got it to run. Not sure exactly what made it go, but dropping one of my variables seemed to help. Another thing I figured out is that it's not enough to change the missing data value. One must also click on the adjacent set missing value button to activate that new v...

So I re-ran everything and the count of the second level units is now correct, but I received the same error. I looked to see if what I'm doing differs from the documentation. I'm using 9999 as missing but it's declared as such in the program, so that shouldn't be a problem. I crosstabbed my binary ...

I'm using 9999 for missing and I specified that in the dialog. However, I failed to sort on the level 2 id. Thanks for the tip.

This was quite helpful. I used SAS to create a text file that I opened in Excel to add the three descriptor lines to at the top. I saved this as a tab delimited file and opened it in WordPad to check. It looks just like the example in the second link. So far so good. I opened this file in REALCOM an...

I don't own MLWin (I'm a SAS user). I'm looking at an article fron Dec 2011 in the Journal of Statistical Software that says Realcom Impute can be used with any software, but it's not clear from the article how I could use it with SAS. The algorithm for use with MLWin is: 1) Run a model in MLWin 2) ...

I tried waiting and got a message in my DOS window that said, "Warning. application in running on a locale different from the original platform locale." After about 3 minutes, Realcom started. I don't know if the message portends any future problems. My system is an HP EliteBook 8500p with...

I want to run Realcom-impute as a stand alone ( I do not own Stata, MLWin or Matlab). I think this is possible based on what I have read. I have downloaded the Matlab runtime compiler and the Realcom-impute module but when I launch Realcom all I get is a blank DOS window. Mathworks refuses to tell m...