It is an Herfindahl index of concentration, it ranges from 0 to 1 (in
principle) : in my specific case:
Variable | Obs Mean Std. Dev. Min Max
-------------+--------------------------------------------------------
H | 213620 .0190621 .0920916 0 .6477536
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 7:17 PM, SR Millis <[email protected]> wrote:
> Andrea,
>
> What exactly is your dependent variable? What does it purport to measure?
>
> SR Millis
>
>
> --- On Tue, 12/30/08, Andrea Rispoli <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> From: Andrea Rispoli <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: st: regression with dependent variable ranging from 0 to 1
>> To: [email protected]
>> Date: Tuesday, December 30, 2008, 12:47 PM
>> Thank you. I tried this but I reach a message which says
>> "Hessian has
>> become unstable or asymmetric
>> data not suitable for non-standard family-link
>> combination".
>> Maybe I should mention that my dependent variable is
>> continuous.
>> Is there anything I could do?
>> Thank you
>> AR
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