Thanks Mark, I am working on that now but it's proving to be quite a
large task.
Mark Schaffer wrote:
>
> Patricia,
>
> There is a -collinear- option for -ml- that would stop collinear
> variables from being dropped, but I can't see how to get -probit- to
> take it.
>
> The alternative is either to remove collinear variables by hand
> before you estimate, or add a line early on in -ivprob- that removed
> the collinear variables from `exog'. Something like
>
> _rmcoll `exog' if `touse'
> local `exog' `r(varlist)'
>
> might work.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> --Mark
>
> Date sent: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 19:38:48 +0930
> From: Patricia Sourdin <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: st: RE: ivprob and collinearity
> Send reply to: [email protected]
>
> > Thanks Nick - you are quite right. However, there seemed to be no outcome. I
> > have emailed Joe Harkness and will wait for his reply. If you can help in the
> > meantime...
> > thanks
> > Patricia
> >
> > Quoting Nick Cox <[email protected]>:
> >
> > > I think this has been discussed previously on Statalist.
> > > I can't recall the outcome but you could try searching
> > > the archives.
> > >
> > > Nick
> > > [email protected]
> > >
> > > Patricia Sourdin
> > >
> > > > I have a query on the ivprob command.
> > > > After having set trace on I discovered where I got the
> > > > conformability error
> > > > message - it is after the last line of this bit of program
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > /* get lee model estimates */
> > > > cap estimates drop lastpbt
> > > > probit `depvar' `fitted' `exog' if `touse'
> > > > matrix tmp = get(_b)
> > > > matrix beta=tmp[1,1..`nendog']
> > > > matrix means=get(mns)
> > > > matrix colnames means = `endog' `exog' _cons
> > > >
> > > > The probit part of the command automatically excludes
> > > > collinear variables and
> > > > therefore the 'exog' list and the list of regressors are
> > > > different so that
> > > > when stata tries to assign column names - there are less
> > > > columns than names in
> > > > the varlist.
> > > >
> > > > Presumably this problem will reoccur at later stages of the program.
> > > > Can anyone suggest a simple way of amending this program to
> > > > deal with this
> > > > problem? My programming skills are not so great.
> > >
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> >
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>
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