Re: st: OLS assumptions not met: transformation, gls, or glm as solutions?

[Maarten Buis <maartenlbuis@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Laura R. wrote:
> I estimated an OLS model with the number of minutes (1-1440) spent on
> an activity on a day as dependent variable. At first sight, the model
> works fine. I receive some interesting results which are robust across
> model specifications. I would like to keep it as it is, but:
>
> - The regression diagnostics shows that the error terms are not
> normally distributed, but right skewed.
>
> - In addition, there is heteroskedasticity.

I would not worry too much about heteroskedasticity or the
distribution of the errors. I would worry about the linearity
assumption.

One possibility would be to dividing your dependent variable by 1440,
such that you have proportion of the day spent on an activity. Than
you can use a fractional logit, that is, use -glm- with the
-family(binomial)-, -link(logit)- and -vce(robust)- options (*).

Hope this helps,
Maarten

(*) There is a program called -fraclogit- available on SSC. However,
I'd recommend using -glm- as the programming of -fraclogit- is
somewhat problematic. A list of problems has been sent to the author.

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