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Re: st: Questions about selmlog and svyselmlog


From   "Yu(Sophia) Zhang" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Questions about selmlog and svyselmlog
Date   Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:52:34 -0400

Dear Joao,

   Thanks for your prompt reply.

   The correct data structure will make me loose most of the values of
depvar. What's your comments on this? Do I need to run 3 seperate
selmlog regression?

   Thanks

   Yu

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Joao Ricardo F. Lima
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Yu,
>
> your data structure is wrong. This is the correct way:
>
>>   depvar    varlist, select ( depvar_m  =   varlist_m)....
>>
>>    500          x                        1                      z
>>    456          x                        1                      z
>>    529          x                        1                      z
>>    601          x                        1                      z
>>    .         x                        2                      z
>>    .          x                        2                      z
>>    .          x                        2                      z
>>    .          x                        3                      z
>>    .          x                        3                      z
>>    .          x                        3                      z
>>    .         x                        3                      z
>>    .         x                        3                     z
>>
>
> Joao Lima
>
>
> 2010/10/21 Yu(Sophia) Zhang <[email protected]>:
>> Dear Joao,
>>
>>   Thanks for your patient explanation. I thought I understood what
>> you mean. But when I followed the rule and made sure that the
>> dependent variable has non-missing values for only one category, the
>> same error still showed up.
>>
>>    What I understand the correct data structure about missing values
>> of depvar is like this:
>>
>>   depvar    varlist, select ( depvar_m  =   varlist_m)....
>>
>>    500          x                        1                      z
>>    456          x                        1                      z
>>    529          x                        1                      z
>>    601          x                        1                      z
>>    miss         x                        2                      z
>>    547          x                        2                      z
>>    408          x                        2                      z
>>    620          x                        3                      z
>>    599          x                        3                      z
>>    512          x                        3                      z
>>    miss         x                        3                      z
>>    miss         x                        3                     z
>>
>>    So the depvar has non-missing values for category 1 only. It has
>> missing values for all the other categories (2 and 3).
>>
>>    Would you please kindly correct me if I am wrong?
>>
>>    I appologize to ask another question. If the command works, how
>> could save the variable lambda (Heckman correction term)?
>>
>>    I appreciate your help a lot!
>>
>>    Yu
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Joao Ricardo F. Lima
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Dear Yu,
>>>
>>> the sintax of selmlog is:
>>>
>>> selmlog depvar varlist, select(depvar_m=varlist_m) [lee dmf(#) dhl(# [all]) etc
>>>
>>> depvar_m is your categorical variable, with more than 2 categories, oks?
>>>
>>> and
>>>
>>> depvar must have non-missing values for only one of theses categories.
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>>
>>> JL
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2010/10/20 Yu(Sophia) Zhang <[email protected]>:
>>>> Dear Joao,
>>>>
>>>>  Thanks so much for your reply. The second question has been solved
>>>> following your suggestion.
>>>>
>>>>   For the first one, do you mean that across all categories ( which
>>>> are schools in my selection equation), only one category can have
>>>> non-missing values of dep var, and the other categories must have some
>>>> missing values of depvar? I deleted some values of depvar to meet this
>>>> requirement, but I still got the same error. Would you mind explaining
>>>> it in more detail?
>>>>
>>>>  Thank you so much!
>>>>
>>>>  Yu
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Joao Ricardo F. Lima
>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> Yu,
>>>>>
>>>>> About the first question:
>>>>>
>>>>> The vardep  of the income equation must have non missing values ONLY
>>>>> for one category.
>>>>>
>>>>> About the second:
>>>>>
>>>>> the svyselmlog was written to Stata 8. Then, try this:
>>>>>
>>>>> version 8: svyset [pweight = varw], psu(varpsu) strata(varstrat)
>>>>> svyselmlog vardep varindep , sel() meth() boot()....
>>>>>
>>>>> Hope this Helps,
>>>>>
>>>>> Joao Lima
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 2010/10/19 Yu(Sophia) Zhang <[email protected]>:
>>>>>> Dear statisticians,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     I am now working on my dissertation and am stuck by a STATA command.
>>>>>> Basically, I want to run Heckman correction based on the multinomial logit
>>>>>> model. I am going to use the command selmlog. However, a strange error shows
>>>>>> up like this:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Non-missing values of dependent variable for more than one outcome
>>>>>> variable _m* not found
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    I guess it might be associated with this statement in the help file:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1) In the output, selmlog adds to varlist a series of variables labelled
>>>>>> _m[depvar_m value], except for the dhl option
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2) The outcome variable depvar is observed for only one value of depvar_m.
>>>>>> It is important that depvar should have missing values for any other value
>>>>>> of depvar_m.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    But still cannot figure out what's wrong.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    In addition, when I want to control for sampling weights by running the
>>>>>> command svyselmlog, I get another error:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> data not set up for the old survey estimation commands; use svyset under
>>>>>> version control or use the new svy prefix.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   But there is no "svy: selmlog" command in STATA 11.....
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     I wonder if someone could kindly give me some hint for these two
>>>>>> problems. I have asked several people but no one were familiar with this
>>>>>> problem.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     I appreciate your help very much.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     Sincerely,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     Yu
>>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> João Ricardo F. de Lima
>>>>> Pesquisador A - Economia Aplicada
>>>>> Embrapa Semiárido
>>>>> e-mail: [email protected]
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>>>>> home-page: www.cpatsa.embrapa.br
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Yu Zhang
>>>> PhD Candidate
>>>> Economics and Education
>>>> Teachers College, Columbia University
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>>>
>>>
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>>> Embrapa Semiárido
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> Pesquisador A - Economia Aplicada
> Embrapa Semiárido
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-- 
Yu Zhang
PhD Candidate
Economics and Education
Teachers College, Columbia University

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