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Re: st: negative binomial regression accepts non-integer continuous outcomes?
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Owen Gallupe <[email protected]>
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Re: st: negative binomial regression accepts non-integer continuous outcomes?
Date
Thu, 30 Aug 2012 20:02:49 -0400
Hi Jason,
I ran up against this same issue a few months back. The discussion
thread at the link below should be informative.
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2011-12/msg00182.html
Owen
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 7:16 PM, Jason Bond <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm running negative binomial regression using nbreg and it seems to accept dependent variables that are positive and continuous (i.e., they are not required to be positive integers). Is Stata truncating or rounding these dependent variable values to integer values before estimating the model? Thanks for any guidance,
>
> Jason
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