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Re: st: IVPOIS question
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"Anat (Manes) Tchetchik" <[email protected]>
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Re: st: IVPOIS question
Date
Thu, 7 Mar 2013 00:02:43 +0200
Thank you!
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 11:54 PM, Austin Nichols <[email protected]> wrote:
> Anat (Manes) Tchetchik <[email protected]>:
> I said nothing of the kind, but it is true that the conditional mean
> of the outcome y must always be positive.
> But outcomes can be zero or even negative.
> The assumption is that
> ln(E(y|X) is linear in X
> not that y is never zero or even negative.
> Of course ln(.) must have a positive argument.
>
> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Anat (Manes) Tchetchik
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Thanks Austin, you mean that the conditional mean must always be positive?
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 11:31 PM, Austin Nichols <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Anat (Manes) Tchetchik <[email protected]>:
>>> No assumption about conditional variance is required for consistent
>>> estimation of coefficients in a Poisson model or -glm- with a log
>>> link. Only the conditional mean assumption is required.
>>>
>>> The FAQ cited contains many errors--if anyone knows who wrote it,
>>> please them know.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Anat (Manes) Tchetchik
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Dear all,
>>>> I'm still struggling with my IV Poisson model.
>>>> I'm not sure; does the assumption about conditional variance for
>>>> consistency is required ?
>>>> I read in http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/dae/poissonreg.htm that
>>>> the Poisson has a strong assumption; that the conditional variance
>>>> equals conditional mean
>>>> If so then what test should be used to verify if my data is
>>>> "qualified" for using this model?
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