But see
-cmp- on SSC.
Also, maybe you do want to combine categories to use -biprobit- but
you should make that choice consciously...
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Maarten buis<[email protected]> wrote:
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> --- 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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