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Re: st: What should I do if stata can not show the result of nbreg
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Muhammad Anees <[email protected]>
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Re: st: What should I do if stata can not show the result of nbreg
Date
Sun, 8 Jan 2012 13:36:32 +0500
A little picture of what you really did with -nbreg- will help us
understand your problem and also indicate what version of Stata is
used.
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Ye SUN <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear all
> My dependent variable is count number: the number of boards that a
> director serves in (this kind of data seems not fit to poisson)
>
> I first try poisson regression and get the results and then I try
> -estat gof- to test whether there is overdispersion problem, it is
> insignificant indicating no overdispersion problem I think.
> I also try -zip- and get similar results, and vuong test indicates
> there is no excess zero problems I think.
>
> I also want to try negative binomial regression,( nbreg and zinb ),
> but stata run for quite a long time and still run without showing any
> results. What does that mean? Dose it mean that nbreg is inappropriate
> here?
>
> I want to ask, if -estat gof- after -poisson- shows the insignificant
> results, can I say this poisson model is OK and do not need to provide
> negative binomial regression results?
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> SUN Ye
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Muhammad Anees
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COMSATS Institute of Information Technology
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