Thanks Richard
Tinna
On 1/21/06, Richard Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
> At 05:35 PM 1/21/2006, Tinna wrote:
> >Dear Statalisters,
> >
> >If my dependent variable isn't really a COUNT measure, but an ordinal
> >measure of something else (in my case self assessed health status),
> >can I still use the Poisson estimation? What are the cons of don't
> >that? Why is e.g. ordinal logit or ordinal probit better?
> >
> >Thanks
> >Tinna
>
> You're not counting anything (e.g. number of times they were happy)
> so I don't think you could justify poisson. ologit or oprobit would
> probably be most appropriate. Or, if the assumptions of those
> methods are violated, you might try out gologit2 or mlogit or
> slogit. Long & Freese's book is good for going over these different methods:
>
> http://www.stata.com/bookstore/regmodcdvs.html
>
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