Thank you for your answer. I have good reasons to think that
heterogeneity across countries also matters for the outcome i study,
which is why Id also want to control for it using country
fixed-effects. I only defined "country" as the "group" in -clogit- in
order to minimize the number of fixed effects I include "by hand" -
because there is more countries than provinces or sectors. I thought
that this would reduce computation time, and that it was equivalent to
defining e.g. provinces as the group variable. It seems to me that it
should lead to the same model being estimated.. but I may be wrong in
making this assumption - Ill check this.
joachim
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:10 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't know if this is related to your issue. Probabilistically,
> events originate in a province, not in the country exported to. If
> you have multiple observations per province, it appears to me that
> "province" should be the group variable for -clogit- with a separate
> analysis for each country.
>
> Think of it this way. "Fixed effects" are (unobserved) intercepts for
> each country. If you have enough data (you might!), you could fit a
> separate dummy for each country, in addition to the covariate you now
> have. This would be an "ordinary" unconditional logistic model. This
> model would not make sense to me.
>
> I am not an econometrician, so I may completely misunderstand your
> problem. If so, I am sure that one of the econometric experts on the
> list will set me straight.
>
> -Steve
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 8:25 AM, joachim jarreau
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi statalist,
>>
>> I am trying to fit a conditional logit model on some 160,000 obs.;
>> there are about 150 groups spanning 11 years. In the specification Id
>> want to include 3 additional sets of fixed effects; so that the
>> command line is of the type :
>>
>> clogit export x1 x2 x3 provd* secd* yeard*, group(country)
>>
>> where "export" is a binomial variable for positive exports in a given
>> sector and year, from a province to a given country. "provd", "secd"
>> and "yeard" are corresponding sets of dummies.
>> I get "initial values not feasible" (r1400) as error message.
>> Ive got two questions:
>>
>> - What is the critical aspect that makes this specification to heavy
>> to implement/prevents convergence? what should I cut? Do you think
>> there are too many observations, too many dummy variables, or both?
>> (Im am trying these alternative solutions, but any indication
>> concerning a preferred direction to search would be helpful).
>>
>> - In searching through precedent posts on the topic, i found a
>> reference to a possibility to feed results from an OLS estimation into
>> a clogit estimation. How can one do this? do you think it would help?
>>
>> Thank you in advance for any advice.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> joachim
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