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Re: st: RE: svy probit/logit iv
At 08:09 PM 7/11/2006, Scott Merryman wrote:
-help ivprobit- ?
-ivprobit- can handle pweights and cluster(). I do not work with survey
data, but doesn't this cover 2 of the 3 main characteristics of survey data
([svy] page 6)?
Scott
Sounds like a pretty reasonable guess! However, ivprobit was added
in Stata 9. Life would be much simpler for Liye if s/he had Stata 9;
besides adding ivprobit it also added much better svy support. For
many commands, all you have to do is tack on an svy prefix, e.g. svy:
regress .... And, even when the svy: prefix does not work (as appears
to be the case with the ivprobit command) you can usually still get
what you want with iweights and suest, e.g. do something like
ivprobit .... [iw=wgtvar]
estimates store m1
suest m1, svy
Assuming Liye is stuck with 8.2, I suggest typing -findit ivprob- and
install those routines; according to the help files, they are
improved versions of probitiv and tobitiv, and (unlike the originals)
give correct standard errors.
I'm guessing Liye could then make a copy of the program and change
the various probit and regress commands to svyprobit and
svyregress. Alternatively, I bet Liye could hack the program to
allow iweights, and then use the suest command, e.g.
myivprob .... [iw=wgtvar]
estimates store m1
suest m1, svy
I caution that my guesses might be wrong; there is a lot of matrix
algebra in ivprob and I don't know for sure that it will still work
ok with these hacks.
If you are doing much svy analysis, get Stata 9 if at all
possible. Or, at least try to double-check some of the results from
your hacked programs with Stata 9.
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