--- On Fri, 17/4/09, Paley, Irina wrote:
> I am analyzing a choice between 3 types of mortgage
> products, and the iir is consistenlty rejected by all tests.
> I have seen several sources saying that multinomial probit
> can be used instead of multinomial logit in this case-- but
> all the examples of multinomial probit I see have to do with
> joint decisions (such as voting for taxes and using public
> schools) rather than chosing between, in this case,
> different types of mortgage products.
>
> As a practical matter, multinomial probit gives estimates
> similar to multinomial logit...
-mprobit- is very similar to -mlogit- because -mprobit- also
enforces a variant of the IIA assumption. If you want to
relax that assumption you will need to use -asmprobit-. The
problem with these models is identification: In addition to
the regular parameters that you try to estimate you are also
trying to estimate correlations between latent (= not directly
observed) variables. That information has to come from
somewhere, usually in the form of some other pretty strong
assumptions. So my feeling about these models is that they
are just replacing one set of strong and wrong assumptions
with another set of equally strong and wrong assumptions...
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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