Thanks. I guess what I am really looking for is an
approach that could use both within and between
variations to estimate the model but without assuming
that the "random effect" is orthogonal to explanatory
variables. Is this possible with STATA?
Thanks a lot.
--- Steve Stillman <[email protected]> wrote:
> GLLAMM and XTMIXED are capable of estimating a
> wide-range of models, but in general, these models
> are in the random effects family and assume that c
> is orthogonal to x. I am not sure what you mean by
> "I have too few observations". There is nothing in
> particular about fixed effects models that require
> more observations than OLS or random effects
> (assuming that you have at least two time periods of
> data on many/most individuals/firms).
>
> Steve
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On
> Behalf Of Shuaizhang
> Feng
> Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 8:17 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: random effects, fixed effects and mixed
> effects models
>
>
> Dear all:
>
> I have a general question on what to choose with a
> panel data model like this:
>
> y(it)=x(it)b+c(i)+v(it)
>
> If I use xtreg to estimate this, when using random
> effects models (re), then I am assuming that c is
> orthogonal to x, right? But that is some assumption
> I
> am reluctant to make. I do not want to use fixed
> effects estimates too because I have too few
> observations.
>
> So could I use GLLAMM or XTMIXED. I suppose in those
> c
> is not assumed to be orthogonal to x. Is that true?
> also, if both GLLAMM and XTMIXED work, which one
> should I choose? I may have to use a two level mixed
> effects model like this one.
>
> y(ijt)=x(ijt)b+c1(ij)+c2(i)+v(ijt).
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> SZ
>
>
>
>
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