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Re: st: Interpretation of /lnsig2u of xtprobit model
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Joerg Luedicke <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Interpretation of /lnsig2u of xtprobit model
Date
Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:21:16 -0400
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:04 AM, ramesh <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a problem to read/interpret the stata outcome obtained from the
> xtprobit model. I am wondering if anyone has some idea to interpret the
> "/lnsig2u" shown up in stata outcome after the xtprobit command.
>
This is the (logged) variance of your random effect. sigma_u is the
SD and if you take the log of sigma_u squared, you get there. It's
equivalent to 2 times the log of the SD.
J.
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