Re: st: interpreting negative and positive AIC- OLS VS. GLM

[Arina Viseth <arina@UDel.Edu>]

Thank you very much again Maarten. Your help is very much appreciated.

Arina

---- Original message ----
>Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:12:00 +0000 (GMT)
>From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu (on behalf of Maarten buis <maartenbuis@yahoo.co.uk>)
>Subject: Re: st: interpreting negative and positive AIC- OLS VS. GLM  
>To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
>
>--- On Thu, 19/8/10, Arina Viseth wrote:
>> From your experience do you have a recommendation for
>> assessing  model fit for this kind of model?
>
>The thing that realy bites when it comes to modeling 
>proportions with a linear model are the boundaries: 
>You cannot have a linear line that will respect these 
>boundaries forever (unless you have a horizontal line). 
>So at some point a linear effect will have to become
>nonlinear. The question is does that happen within
>the range of your data, or can a linear line reasonably
>represent your data. 
>
>The first thing I would do is just plot the distribution
>of your proportion and see if it gets close to one or
>both of the boundaries. If that is the case I would not
>use a linear model, and instead move towards one of the
>alternatives like a fractional logit model or -betafit-
>(which you can download by typing in Stata -ssc install
>betafit-). A nice tool for that is Nick Cox's -stripplot-
>(to install type in Stata -ssc install stripplot-), like
>in the example below:
>
>*------------------------- begin example -------------------
>use http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/c/citybudget.dta, clear
>stripplot governing, stack width(.01)
>*------------------------- end example ---------------------
>
>If most of your observations are somewhere in the middle
>and you thus think that linear regression is ok for your 
>data, I would still check the residuals to see if the 
>linear effects are appropriate and whether the boundaries 
>haven't introduced more heteroskedasticity then you feel 
>comfortable with.
>
>Hope this helps,
>Maarten
>
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>Institut fuer Soziologie
>Universitaet Tuebingen
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>72074 Tuebingen
>Germany
>
>http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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