--- On Mon, 20/7/09, nigussie Tefera wrote:
> (a) I have two dependent variables (both dummy variables):
> one has two categories ( 0 and 1) and the second dependent
> variable has three categories (0, 1, and 2). Is it possible
> to estimate the joint relationship betwees these two
> dependent variables using the biprobit command?
No, both depedent variables need to be dichotomous.
> (b) Note: I run the regression and STATA provided some
> results.
For the second dependent variable it probably combines
categories 1 and 2. This would be consistent with the
behavior of -logit- and -probit-, which compare the
categories 0 versus non-0. This is probably not what
you want.
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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