Re: st: goodness of fit with xtlogit

["Clive Nicholas" <clivelists@googlemail.com>]

Alexandra Wilson wrote:

> How do you determine the efficacy of a binary panel regression (xtlogit)?  I
> (sadly) do not expect that my regression explains much of the variation, as
> I am more concerned with looking at the differences between variables, but I
> would like to be able to report how much variation is explained.
> This regression (output below) looks at the effect of different attributes
> of marital status (wstat2-7, and COWIVES), and presence of kin (frel2) on
> the probability of giving birth to a surviving child in a particular year
> (BIRTH1), controlling for age (using centred age, agem, and centred age
> squared, agemsq) and number of previous marriages (PREVMNO).
[...]

> tsset PNO YEAR
>        panel variable:  PNO (unbalanced)
>         time variable:  YEAR, 1925 to 1995
>
> . xtlogit BIRTH1 COWIVES PREVMNO wstat2 wstat3 wstat4 wstat5 wstat7 frel2
> agem agemsq, re
[...]

-estat gof-?

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