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Re: st: xttobit & stata 12: Initial values not feasible
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Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: xttobit & stata 12: Initial values not feasible
Date
Tue, 3 Jul 2012 14:24:44 +0200
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Surender Komera wrote:
> I'm trying to run 'xttobit' as part of my analysis (STATA12). I did it
> successfully with my complete dataset. Now i am divided the sample
> into quartiles based on firm size (one variable in my dataset).
> Unfortunately, it is throwing out "Initial values not feasible" as
> error message (r1400).
Are there a large proportion of censored observations in that quartile?
Did you center all your explanatory/righ-hand-side/x-variables at some
reasonable value within the range of your data?
-- Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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