How many iterations did you specify? A seed will give you the set of 10 imputations that can be reproduced. But the 10 imputations should differ not identical. Can you send me the script?
Raghu
I used SRCware to create 10 imputations. I accepted the default seed (2001). Each imputation is the the same, i.e., all 10 are copies of each other. It's as if they all used the same seed. Is that the true behavior when specifying a seed? Does one have to specify no seed (and use the internal clock) to have true perturbations among the imputations? What if I want to have reproducible code that will replicate the imputations in the future-how do I specify the seed to do that?
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%impute(name=impute, setup=new);
datain NHIS_Combined317yrs_rev;
continuous PHSTAT boxcox_SRVY_YR boxcox_inciavg boxcox_poviavg boxcox_age_pshift boxcox_age_pshift2 boxcox_FM_SIZE boxcox_FM_SIZE2
boxcox_parentage boxcox_delta_pshift boxcox_delta_cshift boxcox_cohort ;
categorical csreltiv INTV_QRT SEX
PARENTS MOM_ED DAD_ED REGION STRATUM PSU ADD2 AMR2R AODD2 CCONDL01
CCONDL03 CCONDL04 CCONDL05 CCONDL6R CCONDL07 CCONDL08 CCONDL09 CCONDL10 CPOX
CASHMEV CASHYR HAYF2 RALLG2 DALLG2 SALLG2 DIARH2 ANEMIA2 FHEAD
EARINF2 SEIZE2 STUTTER CHSTATYR CVISION IHMOB IHMOBYR PROBRX
LEARND notcov parentmart quint1
quint2 quint3 quint4 apc_period lowbw race_rec apc_age apc_cohort ;
transfer RECTYPE SRVY_YR HHX FMX FPX CSRESPNO AGE_P AGE_P2 HISPAN_I MRACRPI2 FM_SIZE FM_SIZE2
WTFA_SC WTFA_SC3 IHSPEQ CUSUALPL CPLKIND CHCPLROU CHCPLKND CHCCHGYR CHCCHGHI CHCDLYR1 CHCDLYR2
CHCDLYR3 CHCDLYR4 CHCDLYR5 CHCAFYR1 CHCAFYR2 CHCAFYR3 CDNLONGR CHCSYR1 CHCSYR2
CHCSYR3 CHCSYR4 CHCSYR5 CHCSYR6 CHCSYR7 CHCSYR81 CHCSYR82 CHCSYR10 CHPXYR_C
CHERNOY2 CHCHYR CHCHMOYR CHCHNOY2 CSRGYR CMDLONGR HISPIMPT RACEIMP2 MRACBPI2
routflg chgflg phstat_rec1 phstat_rec2 CSTATFLG agedomain BWTGRM_P
BWTGRM2 parentage parentWTFA ASTATFLG parentHHX parentFMX parentPX inciavg poviavg wtcat id
age_pshift age_pshift2 cohort ie_age ie_period ie_cohort
delta_p delta_c delta_pshift delta_cshift lambda_SRVY_YR lambda_inciavg lambda_poviavg
lambda_age_pshift lambda_age_pshift2 lambda_FM_SIZE lambda_FM_SIZE2 lambda_parentage lambda_ie_age boxcox_ie_age lambda_ie_period boxcox_ie_period lambda_ie_cohort boxcox_ie_cohort lambda_delta_pshift
lambda_delta_cshift lambda_cohort lambda_CHCHMOYR boxcox_CHCHMOYR CHCHMOYRcat ;
ITERATIONS 20;
MULTIPLES 10;
SEED 2001;
run;
%PUTDATA(NAME= impute2, SETUP=new);
IMPUTATION impute;
MULT 2;
RUN;
%PUTDATA(NAME= impute3, SETUP=new);
IMPUTATION impute;
MULT 3;
RUN;
%PUTDATA(NAME= impute4, SETUP=new);
IMPUTATION impute;
MULT 4;
RUN;
%PUTDATA(NAME= impute5, SETUP=new);
IMPUTATION impute;
MULT 5;
RUN;
%PUTDATA(NAME= impute6, SETUP=new);
IMPUTATION impute;
MULT 6;
RUN;
%PUTDATA(NAME= impute7, SETUP=new);
IMPUTATION impute;
MULT 7;
RUN;
%PUTDATA(NAME= impute8, SETUP=new);
IMPUTATION impute;
MULT 8;
RUN;
%PUTDATA(NAME= impute9, SETUP=new);
IMPUTATION impute;
MULT 9;
RUN;
%PUTDATA(NAME= impute10, SETUP=new);
IMPUTATION impute;
MULT 10;
RUN;