--- "Tyler, Margaret C D" <[email protected]> wrote:
> In the example in the Stata reference -H heckprob, there are 95 total
> and 59 uncensored observations, so 62% are uncensored. In my own
> situation I have only about 19% uncensored. Is it still appropriate
> to use heckprob for my analysis? I have run the equations and gotten
> what seem to be valid results. rho is non-significant.
You are obviously pushing your luck with that many censored cases. It
is no longer very popular to make statements like you need at least N
observation or p% uncensored cases for technique t to be appropriate
(whatever appropriate may mean). So I don't think you will get the
answer you are looking for. However, what you can do is run some
simulations and see how well (or bad) your estimator behaves with a
small number of uncensored cases. At the last Summer North American
Stata Users' Group meeting I gave a talk on using Stata for doing this
type of simulations, you can get the materials from:
http://ideas.repec.org/p/boc/nsug08/14.html
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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