--- "Ohinata, Asako" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear All
>
> I am currently running dprobit with many dummy variables as well as
> some continuous variables (i.e. age etc). When I run the regression,
> some of the z-values are missing although standard errors are
> estimated.
>
> Y | dF/dx Std. Err. z
> kid3plus*| 1 2.86e-71 . <snip>
> Could you please let me know when STATA compute standard errors but
> not z-values?
The standard error is in the example is very very small
(0.0000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000286), i.e. de
facto zero. So I am not surprized the z-score is missing. Is kid3plus
the reference category?
-- Maarten
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