On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Diego Rei wrote:
> Hello to all the Statalisters, I am trying to run the commands
> xtrchh/xtrchh2 on my models and I always get the following message:
> "602 obs. dropped (panels too small)" Does anybody know why this is
> happening? Suspecting that it might depend on the rather small number of
> cross sections relative to parameters to be estimated, I eliminated some
> of the covariates and obtained : "matrix has missing values"
> which is indeed true. I just would ask for a confirmation, is the xtrchh
> command running with balanced panels only?Is the problem with panels too
> small related to the number of panels with respect to the parameters or
> to the time series dimension of the cross sections, or
> to something else?
> Thanks for any help.
> Have a good day
>
Dear Diego,
In a random-coefficients model, the number of observations in each
panel must be greater than the number of regressors (including the
constant). The first step in fitting Swamy's RC model is to perform
OLS regression on each panel separately, and if the condition I just
mentioned is not met, OLS will not work. Panels that do not meet that
requirement will get dropped.
If you still have problems, feel free to email me your dataset
privately and the exact syntax you are using.
Hope this helps.
-- Brian Poi
-- [email protected]
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