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Re: st: regression with dependent variable ranging from 0 to 1


From   "Andrea Rispoli" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: regression with dependent variable ranging from 0 to 1
Date   Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:43:39 +0100

yes

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Feiveson, Alan H. (JSC-SK311)
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Sorry, I missed the part about N being zero also . So the model has to
> take into account that N can be zero. As an example,  n|N ~ binomial(N,
> p) if N > 0, otherwise n=0; and N has a Poisson distribution. p and or
> the Poisson mean may vary randomly from firm to firm (random effects),
> but is fixed within a firm. May require a customized -ml- program, or
> maybe even a Bayesian approach. I am assuming that both N and n vary
> within the observations pertaining to the same firm. Is this correct?
>
> Al F.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Feiveson,
> Alan H. (JSC-SK311)
> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 3:19 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: st: regression with dependent variable ranging from 0 to 1
>
> Andrea -
>
> Are n and N counts? What range of values do they take on? Can n be
> thought of as a binomial sample from N? Then try -glm- as before but
> using n as the dependent variable, not G or H.  Still, clustering on
> firms, should probably be taken into account. Perhaps this can be done
> using -xtlogit- on a 0-1 variable that sums to n.
>
> Al F.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andrea
> Rispoli
> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 3:06 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: st: regression with dependent variable ranging from 0 to 1
>
> I typed:
> glm  depvar indepvar1 indepvar2... indepvarn, link(logit) robust nolog
>
> when I tried
>
> glm  depvar indepvar1 indepvar2... indepvarn,  link(logit)
> family(binomial) robust nolog
> I got
> "note: depvar has noninteger values"
>
> Actually, the great majority of my data are zeros: 204581 over 213000
> observation. What do you mean exactly with "model separately"?
>
> Austin:
> Sorry, I gave a wrong information: this is actually 1-H, that is why I
> have several 0s Let me say it more in detail:
> Dep var = Log(1+G)
> where G=1-H and  H=S(n/N)^2 (an Herfindahl index)
>
> I have 0 for all the cases in which H=1 and for all the cases in which n
> and N=0
>
>
> Al:
> no clustering variable, but indeed I have 10 observations for each firm
> (I use dummies for dealing with this) and indeed some indep variables
> have the same values for all the 10 obs and sometimes the depvar is the
> same for some of the 10 obs
>
> Thank you!
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Maarten buis <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> --- Andrea Rispoli <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 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
>>
>> How many zeros do you have? ( type in Stata: -count if H == float(0)-
>> ) Even though it is possible for a fractional logit to model a
>> dependent variable that includes zero (and one), if there are too many
>
>> of these, then that might indicate that these zeros occur due to a
>> separate process and need to be modeled separately.
>>
>> -- Maarten
>>
>> -----------------------------------------
>> Maarten L. Buis
>> Department of Social Research Methodology Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
>
>> Boelelaan 1081
>> 1081 HV Amsterdam
>> The Netherlands
>>
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>>
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>>
>> http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
>> -----------------------------------------
>>
>>
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