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Dear Jeremy

I have already imputed the missing values in SPSS and will be analyzing my data using PLS-SEM. There are 5 imputations which value do i use as mean value replacement for my missing value.

Thank you

Hi Jeremy,

Do you have an update to this link? http://sites.stat.psu.edu/~jls/mifaq.html#howto It isn't linking!!

pam

I have conducted analysis for the missing data I have in my data set and it is missing at random. According to SPSS guidelines, if this is the case I have to use Multiple Imputation procedures following a Linear regression methodology to impute the data for the missing values. The SPSS derives 5 different values for each missing values and it generates a complete dataset with imputed values in five versions/imputations. However, it does not provide me with one single/pooled dataset that takes into account all imputations.

I just wanted to draw on your experience on this, do I simple take the average of these 5 different imputed values to generate the pooled value and have a complete dataset, or is there another procedure I need to be aware of? I know that SPSS does analysis based on pooled dataset as well as for each imputation separately. But I need the dataset to use it in other software like STATA or eViews. Please help on generating the final pooled dataset with all variables.