Re: st: Multinomial probit model error

[Martin Weiss <martin.weiss@uni-tuebingen.de>]

Not sure about the error, but have you considered using the  
multinomial logit results? Probit and logit usually give similar  
results, but I am not quite sure whether this rule carries over to the  
multinomial case...

Zitat von Humnath Bhandari <hnbgulmi@yahoo.com>:


> Dear List members,
> I have 150 sample household with different level of poverty. I   
> have�grouped this poverty�level�into�three classes�(1, 2, 3).�I run   
> multinomial probit regression model with this three categories of   
> poverty as dependent variable and sociodemographic factors as   
> independent variable. I use STATA 9.2 to run this program but it   
> gave me the following error:
> �����������������
> <istmt>:� 3499� _mprobit_weights_roots_laguerre() not found
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> My multinomial probit model specification is as follows:
> mprobit eplbvarb hdage hdeducyrs age18 hhsize totul valuelskip
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> But, when I run the multinomial logit model with same�variable   
> specification then it works.
> I would very much appreciate if anyone can help me to figure out   
> what is my mistake in running the multinomial probit model.
> Thank you in advance for your help.
> Cheers,
> Humnath
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