Re: st: predicts success perfectly

[Ernest Berkhout <ernestb@seo.fee.uva.nl>]

At 20:41 29-6-2003, you wrote:
> What does it mean when your analysis yeilds the following result
>
> Note: X~=1 predicts success perfectly
>       X dropped and 3 obs not used
Sounds like one of the independent variables in your probit is perfectly 
collineair with the rest of your independent variables. I don't know why 3 
observations are neglected as well, after neglecting X.




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