Re: st: goodness of MNL fit

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

At 07:45 AM 10/2/2008, Chiara Mussida wrote:
> Dear All,
> i'm trying to find a reliable measure of goodness of fit for MNL.
> Fitstat, indeed, shows the well known Mc Fadden R2 but there are
> issues surrounding this indicator.
> Do you know if there are other commands to implement to get such a
> kind of indicator?
> Thanks in advance
The version of -fitstat- available from SSC is not the most current 
version.  To get the most current version (along with a lot of other 
useful utilities)type

findit spost9

That version of -fitstat- gives you a variety of pseudo r^2 
measures.  I suspect they all have "issues" though.


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