[R-sig-ME] NAs in fixed effects

[David Duffy]

On Wed, 5 Jan 2011, Henrik Thurfjell wrote:

> I have a rather large dataset which needs one random effect to be 
> analysed properly (group). I also have many explanatory variables, each 
> with a few NAs at different places. I can easily enough fit a model with 
> 2 fixed effects, but as the number of fixed effects increase so does tha 
> NAs as they are not in the same rows. I am no statistician, and this may 
> be a naive question, but is there a way to fit each fixed effect with 
> its full data?

One way out is to impute the missing data, recalling you would have had 
the same problem if you wanted to just fit a fixed effects model.

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