Thank you for responding Maarten. So to get the right rho, what should I do?
Thanks
Nirina
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Maarten buis <[email protected]> wrote:
> --- Nirina F <[email protected]> wrote:
>> In my biprobit I get rho=0.6 and 0.7 and then to 3.
>> I thought that rho has to be between -1 and 1. Am I right?
>> What is the econometric meaning of this rho being 3 then? If this
>> is nonsense then why does Stata runs and give that result anyway?
>
> Looks to me that you are looking at /athrho instead of rho. /athrho is
> the Fisher's z transformed rho, and can range from minus infinity to
> plus infinity.
>
> -- Maarten
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