Dear Maarten,
Thanks for this advice. Much appreciated.
Allison
----- Original Message -----
From: Maarten buis <[email protected]>
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 6:50 pm
Subject: Re: st: sensitivity analysis following xtgee?
To: [email protected]
>
> --- On Wed, 29/4/09, Allison Milner wrote:
> > I am trying to better understand sensitivity analysis
> > following my XTGEE estimation for 73 countries. So far, I
> > have tried to include alternate control variables, regional
> > dummy variables (geographic location), and year dummy
> > variables into the analysis. I have also tried to use a
> > different correlation structure (eg. ar) in the xtgee and
> > also use a FE and RE model. Is there anything other ways in
> > which I can conduct sensitivity analysis? Is there something
> > I am missing/doing wrong?
>
> You can always add more and different models to a sensitivity
> analysis, so the trick is not to try to be exhaustive, because
> than you will always fail. Instead you should define a set of
> potential problems with your models that you care about and
> from that derive a set of models that make reasonable but
> different assumptions about these problems. When writing it up
> you should make the argument that these models capture a
> reasonable range of possible assumptions concerning the problems
> you care about.
>
> -- Maarten
>
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> Maarten L. Buis
> Institut fuer Soziologie
> Universitaet Tuebingen
> Wilhelmstrasse 36
> 72074 Tuebingen
> Germany
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