James,
Quoting Joseph Coveney <[email protected]>:
> James Shaw wrote:
>
> > I was wondering if there is such a thing as fixed effects ordinal
> probit
> > regression. If so, could one simply add dummy variables for the
> panel
> > indicator (e.g., subject id) to the ordinal probit model to obtain
> fixed
> > effects estimates? Also, when estimating a fixed effects
> regression model
> > with a subject-level effect, how problematic is it if there are
> missing
> > observations on the dependent variable for some subjects (i.e.,
> unbalanced
> > panels)?
>
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>
> By analogy to -areg , absorb()-, it seems feasible to create dummy
> (indicator) variables for the panel identifier with -oprobit-, but
> doing
> this in an ordered categorical regression risks having "note: [X]
> observations completely determined. Standard errors questionable."
> at the
> bottom of the -oprobit- output. This would raise suspicions about
> Wald
> tests, although in a test case that I tried out where this happens
> (see
> do-file below), the Wald test agrees well with the corresponding
> likelihood
> ratio test. If panels are dropped due to collinearity in fitting
> the full
> model, then likelihood-ratio testing with the reduced (nested)
> models is
> problematic unless the same panels are fortuitously dropped in the
> latter.
>
> When observations are missing, handling the panel as a fixed effect
> seems to
> be mechanically possible--in the test case, -oprobit- attained
> convergence
> and didn't seem to drop any panels with a missing value--but it
> might be
> worthwhile to perform Monte Carlo simulations in order to determine
> whether
> hypothesis testing and parameter estimates behave as expected in
> such a
> circumstance before using -oprobit- on an unknown dataset with
> missing
> observations.
>
> -oprobit , cluster()- might serve as an alternative in some
> circumstances.
> With enough panels, another alternative would be to consider the
> panel as a
> random effect, and use -reoprob- or -gllamm-.
>
> Joseph Coveney
There's another issue here as well, which is that a fixed effects ordered
probit may not be consistent.
In a posting to the list back in June, Eduardo Nakasone quoted from the
Stata manual:
"There is no command for a conditional probit fixed-effects model, as
there does not exist a sufficient statistic allowing the fixed effects to
be conditioned out of the likelihood. Unconditional fixed-effects probit
models may be estimated with the probit command with indicator variables
for the panels... However, unconditional fixed fixed-effect estimates are
biased".
I haven't checked up on this, but I have strong suspicion that if a fixed
effects probit is not consistent, then a fixed effects ordered probit
won't be consistent either.
--Mark
Prof. Mark Schaffer
Director, CERT
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