Re: st: Question on Logit/Probit

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 11:45 PM 3/25/2007, Jeremy Miles wrote:
> I think you want to use a beta regression.  I don't know if it exists
> (I've never tried to find it in Stata).  It's similar to the
> logit/probit approach, in that it transforms the data, and then
> estimates the parameters using ML.
>
> There was a paper by Smithson in Psychological Methods on this
> recently - the abstract is here:
> http://content.apa.org/journals/met/11/1/54
>
> Jeremy
Come to think of it, I believe Maarten Buis said something about this 
not too long ago.  I assume he must sleep some time, so I'll post the 
link to his page:

http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/software/betafit.html


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