Nishant:
Not only will the output tell you the number of observations, but also which
were censored and which aren't. The censored cases do provide information
used in estimation. Especially in estimating the selection equation, how could
you estimate the effect of variables on the probability of being selected if you
ignored all non-selected cases, i.e. if your data consists only of selected
cases. So the censored cases shouldn't be deleted/ignored.
HTH,
Maarten
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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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--- Nishant Dass wrote:
heckman Change_WRTm4 myvar $controls i1-i48 y1-y13,
twostep select(dummym1m3 = $FIRMm4 roa_m4 roa_m5 roa_m6)
The number of observations in this regression appears to be
around 6,000 but my "dummym1m3" (i.e., the dep. var. of the
selection equation) has only half as many 1's.
So, my question is - does Stata report the number of 0's
and 1's? I was expecting to see only the number of
"selected" observations.
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