Re: st: ologit_interaction_duplicate enetries found

[Maarten Buis <maartenlbuis@gmail.com>]

On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Sanam P wrote:
> I have used an ordered logistic model, using ologit, with interactions included
> in the model.
>
>  xi:ologit  y    i.a*i.b   i.c   i.d   i.e   i.a*i.f   i.a*i.g  ,or
>
> And I have received below error:
>
> initial vector: duplicate entries for y:o._Ia_2 found
>
>
> I saw below qusetion, which was very similar to my question,  in the below
> email, and Maarten's answer to it, when I was searching for an answer to my
> question (please see below emails).
>
>  The only difference is that in my case both variables in the interactions are
> categorical. So I tried:
>
> xi:ologit  y    i.a*i.b   i.c   i.d   i.e   i.a|i.f   i.a|i.g  ,or
>
> but I received below error:
>
>
> I.xxx|I.yyy not allowed
>
>
> Apparently this only works when one of the covariates included in the
> interactions is countiniuos (as it was in the below question in the below
> email).

If you look at the helpfile of -xi- you'll see that i.varn_a|i.varn_b
is not one of the allowed form, it only mentions i.varn_a|varn_b. The
trick to reading helpfiles is to also pay attention to what has not
been written.

If variables f and g are binary variables than leaving the i.prefix
out is a solution

If you have Stata 11 you could leave out the -xi:- prefix and type
ologit y i.a*(i.b i.f i.g)   i.c   i.d   i.e ,or
For more on that see: -help fvvarlist-

Otherwise you can always make the dummy variables and interactions
yourself, see for example:
http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/webbooks/reg/chapter3/statareg3.htm

Hope this helps,
Maarten

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