Note that the order of the specification of random effects in -xtmelogit- is "opposite" of that in -gllamm-. I believe, in this case, you want:
xi: xtmelogit depvar indepvars || householdID: || personID:
This would also explain why you're getting the same number of units on both levels.
HTH,
- Elan
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> Dimitrije Tišma
> Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 16:20
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> Subject: Re: st: xtmelogit - a very strange treatment of
> different levels
>
> The command was a quite typical -xtmelogit-. Persons are nested within
> households, i.e. they do not change the HH number over time. As the
> first step I wanted only random intercepts for person and household
> level, so I wrote the following:
>
> xi: xtmelogit depvar indepvars || personID: || householdID:
>
> I did not save the results, I am afraid, but I remember well what was
> puzzling. The group statistics was strange to me, as it showed the
> same number of units on both levels. Obviously, it considered the
> number of person-household combinations as number of households and I
> don't know why. Furthermore, while when using -gllamm- the results
> change considerably by introducing another level (household), here
> they were practically identical to those when using logit. Thanks in
> advance for the answer.
>
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> 2010/2/12 Airey, David C <[email protected]>:
> > .
> >
> > Show your commands and results.
> >
> >> Dear all,
> >>
> >> I am working with some household panel dataset and in
> order to check
> >> for random effects I did both gllamm and xtmelogit
> regression. While
> >> in gllamm everything worked fine, xtmelogit did not deal
> with the two
> >> levels (individuals and households) the way I expected. Namely, it
> >> reports the same number of units on both levels (!) and
> practically no
> >> random effects either level. Also, the results are practically
> >> identical to the results when "normal" logit regression is
> used. Does
> >> anyone know what this could be about? Thanks a lot.
> >>
> >> Dimitrije
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