Dear all,
I have a very basic question. I am running a simple logit and want to know
how to "feed" the data to the logit command.
I have Y= whether a person took a private car (1)or public transit (0)on a
given trip. My possible explanatory variables are, as reported by travelers
in an Origin Destination Survey:
-income per person (continuous),
-average distance between zones (average),
-travel time for the mode they used (continuous),
-number of vehicles available to the household this traveler belongs to
(0,1,2..)
-income bracket that this traveler's household belongs to (about 5
categories).
I will also be creating a
-cost variable (fare paid if public transit was used, parking and gas
expenses dependent on the average distance traveled.
Do I just give Stata this information as is, even if one variable is an
average, another is categorical and another is continuous (per person)?
I would hate to bunch all of them into categories because it seems to me I'd
lose a lot of information by doing this.
Any help with this would be appreciated, or if there is a book or paper I
can refer to, please let me know.
Thanks!
Julia A. Gamas
Program on Urban, Regional and Global Air Pollution
MIT
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the main point is that the choice of private versus public depends on
both (i) attributes of the individual (e.g. income) and (ii) attributes
of the choices themselves (e.g. cost and time). so I propose you first
have a look at the so-called conditional logit model (see help clogit),
but in order to estimate this model you will need access to cost and
time information for both travel modes for each individual. references
for this model are given in stata's manual.
