Re: st: seqlogit error: "No path in the tree leads to values .."

[Rijo John <rmjohn@gmail.com>]

Thanks maarten. This worked for me. Thanks for the great seqlogit package.


On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Maarten Buis <maartenlbuis@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Rijo John wrote:
>> I am trying to estimate a sequential logit model using the seqlogit
>> proceedure by Maarten. Here is the command I am executing
>>
>> seqlogit choice age agesq, tree(1: 2 3 4, 4:2 3)
>>
>> I keep getting the error message "No path in the tree leads to values 2 3"
>
> -seqlogit- requires that each value of choice can be reached by one
> and only one path specified in the -tree()- option. In your case the
> value 1 can be reached by failing the first transition, the value 4
> can be reached by passing the first and failing the second transition,
> but that leaves the values 2 and 3. So, you need to add an additional
> transition. Valid specifications of the -tree()- option would for
> example be:
>
> tree(1: 2 3 4, 4:2 3, 2:3 )
>
> or:
>
>  tree(1: 2 3 4, 4:2: 3)
>
>> My dependent variable choice is coded with 4 outcomes. Each id in the
>> data only chose one of those outcomes. There are 17,109 ids in my data
>> and it has been expanded by 4 to a total of 17,109X4
>
> I do not think you want to do that. -seqlogit- is designed for dealing
> with the case where there is only one observation per id, the fact
> that there are multiple transitions is taken care of in the likelihood
> function.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
>
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