Dear Richard,
Many thanks for your quick reply -- yes it is the pweight which I tend to use in
estimation of every survey data
Marwan
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> Williams
> Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 7:24 AM
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> Subject: Re: st: Log pseudo-likelihood
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> At 12:05 PM 5/28/2004 -0400, Marwan Khawaja wrote:
> >Dear All,
> >Sometimes the output from logit reports log-pseudo likelihood instead of
> >log-likelihood --
> >I do not know why -- Where can I find documentation of this?
> >
> >I am using stata 8.2 on ms windows.
> >
> >TIA, Marwan
>
> You will see that when using robust standard errors (which are sometimes
> forced by the use of options such as cluster, or pweights). Are you
> encountering it in other cases? There is some discussion of this on p. 28
> of the Stata 8 Survey Data Manual. It says that "pseudo-maximum likelihood
> methods" (which get used with robust SEs) are not "true likelihoods" and
> hence "standard LR tests are no longer valid".
>
> Incidentally, there must have been some fine-tuning of this since the
> manuals came out. P. 305 of the Reference Manual G-M gives an example of
> logistic regression using robust standard errors. It reports the log
> likelihood; but when I replicate the example it reports the log
> pseudo-likelihood. There are also differences in the robust standard
> errors reported and in the Wald chi-square.
>
>
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