Another alternative is discriminant function analysis.
SR Millis
--- Sugie Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello!
> I want someone to help me on a following question.
> Let's suppose we have three cities (city A, city B,
> city C).
> And we have just one variable which is population
> density(POPDEN)
>
> I may try regular regression as follows:
> .reg POPDEN dummy(city A) dummy(city B)
>
> What if I use multinomial logit?
> In this case, the dependent variable is
> "CITY"(A,B,C)
>
> .mlogit CITY POPDEN
> .listcoef
>
> I want to see differences of population density
> between cities.
> "listcoef" command immediately after "mlogit" will
> give me these
> differences.
>
> My question is whether I can use mlogit for this
> case?
>
> If mlogit is possible for this case, I will do
> analysis with more
> independent variables as follows:
> .mlogit CITY POPDEN INDEP2 INDEP3 INDEP4
>
> Any comments and suggestions will be helpful to me.
> Thanks.
>
> Sugie
>
>
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Scott R Millis, PhD, MEd, ABPP (CN & RP)
Director, Office of Clinical Trials
Kessler Medical Rehabilitation Research & Education Corp
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West Orange, NJ 07052
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