--- Giorgio Ricchiuti <[email protected]> wrote:
> If I got the point are you suggesting me to write a program as
> follows?
>
> program
> version 8
> args lnf mu teta
> quietly replace �lnf� = exp(-`teta') if $ML_y1==1
> quietly replace �lnf� = ln(1-exp(-`teta'))+ $ML y1*ln(`mu')- `mu' -
> lnfact($ML y1)- ln(1-exp(-`mu')) if $ML_y1>1
>
> end
> . ml model lf myoneinflated (y = x1 x2 x3) () () () ()
> . ml init tau1=1 tau2=2 tau3=3 tau4=4, skip
> . ml check
> . ml maximize
If you replace the line -program- with -program define myoneinflated-,
than, as a way of writing a -ml- model for one time use, yes this is
definitely the do it. I also begin this way when I am writing a program
for wider use, but than I continue adding bells and whistles to it till
it looks like a normal Stata program.
However, i am not sure about the likelihood. A one inflated poisson
would mean to me that there are two groups: one that always has a count
of one, and the other which can have any count larger than or equal to
one. We don't know which person belongs to which group so we model the
data as a mixture. I assume `teta' is the linear predictor for the
``inflation equation'', in which case the probability of belonging to
the ``always 1 group'' is not -exp(-`teta')- but -invlogit(`teta')-.
One minus that probability (not belonging to the always 1 group) can
than for numerical precision reasons be better coded as
-invlogit(-`teta')- instead of -1-invlogit(`teta')-. Since it is a
mixture, the likelihood for a person with a one count should also
contain a -invlogit(-`teta')*``likelihood according to poisson''- part.
Finally, you specify tau s in the -ml init- statement that are not used
in the likelihood function.
In short, as a way of programming this models this is a good way to do
it, but i would have a really good look at the likelihood function
again.
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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