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Re: st: estimating a proportion in panel data
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Lloyd Dumont <[email protected]>
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Re: st: estimating a proportion in panel data
Date
Wed, 13 Oct 2010 08:49:29 -0700 (PDT)
Thank you for this, Maarten. Can you (or anyone else) suggest a good primer on running and interpreting residual diagnostics for multilevel data? Rabe-Hesketh and Skrondal just barely touch on it. Lloyd
--- On Tue, 10/12/10, Maarten buis <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Maarten buis <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: st: estimating a proportion in panel data
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Tuesday, October 12, 2010, 12:28 PM
> --- On Tue, 12/10/10, Lloyd Dumont
> wrote:
> > Mainly, I am estimating a proportion [0,1]. That
> is,
> > it is a continuous variable between zero and one,
> > inclusive.
> >
> > #1
> > The data are panel data. Think of it as a
> proportion
> > observed for each unit each month, over many months.
> >
> > #2
> > My focal independent variable is a two-way
> multiplicative
> > interaction term. I know there are a number of
> issues
> > associated with estimating these interactions in
> logits and
> > probits.
>
> I would just go for a linear panel model (-xtreg-) and
> carefully check the following:
> - are the effects of continuous predictors linear or is
> the
> logical boundary of 0 and 1 forcing non-linearity in
> the
> effect?
> - are the error term and random effects normally
> distributed
> with constant variance or are the logical boundaries
> causing
> trouble?
>
> This boils down to looking at the residuals in a way one
> should
> do anyhow when doing such an analysis, except that now we
> have
> a specific suspicion what the problem might be, which makes
> it
> easier to spot such problems.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
>
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>
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