I think it is better to use COVB or EST type data set as input into PROC
MIANALYZE. Have you tried that?

Raghu

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Swank, Paul R <[email protected]>wrote:

> I recently ran an imputation analysis in SAS using Procs MI and MIANALYZE.
> The imputations worked fine. The problem is a general linear model with
> multiple predictors and interactions. The problem is when I read the
> documentation for using MIANALYZE with GLM, it said to output the
> parameters and the inverse of X’X. I did this but MIANALYZE kept saying
> that I couldn’t use inverse(X’X) with categorical variables, although I did
> not include a class statement in my GLM. When I looked at the output files
> created by ODS, the parameter estimates had all the variable names listed
> without problem but the inverse X’X file had renamed all the interaction
> terms as dummy001, dummy002, etc.  I don’t know why that is or why it
> wouldn’t work. I do know that if I dropped the inverse X’X statement from
> MIANALYZE, it worked. Does anyone know what is going on here. ****
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