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Re: st: negative binomial regression accepts non-integer continuous outcomes?


From   Owen Gallupe <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   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,
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>   Jason
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