Date:         Sat, 2 Jan 2010 11:47:43 -0800
Reply-To:     oslo <oslo@yahoo.com>
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From:         oslo <hokut1@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      the way impute non normal data
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Dear User;

I have data from molecular study (SNPs data). data set has 35000 columns and I have some missing data to be imputed. However I figured out from SAS documantaton that PROC MI is OK for  rilmultivariate data (For data sets with arbitrary missing patterns, a Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method (Schafer 1997) that assumes multivariate normality is used to impute all missing values or just enough missing values to make the imputed data sets have monotone missing patterns)

Still can I use PROC MI to impute for my data?

Happy new year,

Oslo