--- carlo wrote:
> > A quick question: Is there any relationship between
> > the variables? For example, do the proportions add
> > to for each cross-section unit?
--- On Tue, 7/4/09, Mike Wazowski wrote:
> they don't
Then my programs don't apply. These are meant for the
situation where multiple proportions add up to one.
-fmlogit- exactly implements what Carlo sugested,
and -dirifit- is an alternative approach for the same
problem.
> one variable is an "index of participation" that runs
> from 0 to 1, the other is the "intensity of trust" that
> also runs from 0 to 1 so i have only one row of data
> per subject. i want to run
> participation <- trust ....
>
> but at the same time there is obviously a question of
>
> trust <- participation ....
The bigger problem here seems to me identification.
If I remember correctly you would need an explanatory
variable that influences participation but not trust
_and_ an explanatory variable that influences trust
but not participation. I find it hard to imagine
what these variables might be.
-- Maarten
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Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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