--- Viktor Slavtchev <[email protected]> wrote:
> My dependent variable are proportions in five categories which add
> to one (y1-y5). I want to test the impact of a set of independent
> variables (a, b, c), which are common for each y.
> Additionally, I wan to test the impact of x1, x2, x3, x4, x5 whereat
> x1 enters only the equation for y1, x2 enters only y2, and so on.
> I think -dirifit- is the right technique. So I run fist:
> dirifit y1 - y5, alpha(a b c) alpha1(x1) alpha2(x2) alpha3(x3)
> alpha4(x4) alpha5(x5) However, as I am interested in the marginal
> effects I have to use the
>
> -mu- option (if I've got it correctly).
> My problem is, however, that with -mu- option I was not able to
> specify that x1 hat to enter only y1, x2 only y2, ...
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
There are -mu1-, -mu2-, etc options, but they don't work well with
-ddirifit- which I assume is the problem you are running in to. You
could add x1 till x5 to all equation and add constraints that their
parameters are 0 in all equations where you don't want them. Generally
speaking the -ddirifit- command (the command that computes the marginal
effects) is too fragile for my taste (I am one of the authors, so I
don't consider it bad taste to beat up my own program). It is on my
todo list to repair that. But, as I have said on some other occations
on this list, I am in the process of finishing my dissertation, which
has priority right now.
-- Maarten
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