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Re: st: negative binomial regression accepts non-integer continuous outcomes?
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: negative binomial regression accepts non-integer continuous outcomes?
Date
Fri, 31 Aug 2012 01:47:49 +0100
The short answer to Jason's question is neither. I am puzzled that
1. Jason thinks that Stata would change your data, but not make that clear.
2. Jason didn't experiment with truncating or rounding his data to
check out his fears.
3. No-one in practice seems puzzled that Stata doesn't object to
integers when applying tests or fitting models that are usually
explained as based on normality assumptions.
Nick
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Owen Gallupe <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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