According to the example in the FAQ, when the quad point was increases
from 12 to 24, there was an improvement. In my case as well, increasing
the quad points also led to an improvement. Also, the manual (v6) states
that "When the number of points is increased, the range spanned by the
points is also increased, and, on average, the points are only slightly
closer together". Somewhere else mentioned that precision is increased
sightly. It seems that these bits taken together suggest that increasing
the quad points may help somewhat.
Still, what should I make of things if I increase or reduce the quad
points and still have one or two variables with a relative difference
greater than 1%?
Thanks
>>> [email protected] 11/18/02 01:00PM >>>
Maureen Paul
> I am testing the reliability of the quadrature approximation after
> running a random effects logit model. However the relative
> difference on
> 3 of my variables exceed 1% (they are 2 job sector dummies
> with relative
> differences of 1.3% and 48% and 1 industry dummy with a relative
> difference of 1.3%) . I have increased the quad points (to
> 20) but this
> does not change the results. All other coefficients are fine.
>
> Looking at the example in the book, it appears that if one
> coefficient
> is problematic, the reliability of all the estimates are
> questionable
> whilst reading the FAQ suggest that if all other
> coefficients are fine
> while one may be problematic, I should be reasonably
> confident with the
> results.
>
> Since there does not appear to be much gain in increasing the quad
> points, should I be confident with my results even though 3
> coefficients
> exceeds 1% with one have a relative difference of 48%?
>
I am no expert on this, but a small but possibly
important detail here is that sometimes you are better
advised to decrease the
# of quad points. Think of this as like retreating
from approximating with a polynomial which has
too many terms. This point is elaborated in the manual.
Nick
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