RE: st: gllamm dropping variables

["Bontempo, Daniel E" <deb193@ku.edu>]

Hi Stan. 

The issue with xtlogit is that it collapses all non zero values into 1 category. I lose the "ordered logistic" aspect, or the information the levels between 0-1 would have contributed in the gllamm model with link(logit) and family(binomial).

In reading Stata Journal about the use of logit with binominal to model fractions (st0147), I understand glm had to be rewritten to allow this. I think gllamm may lack whatever was done to glm, and this causes it to drop everything.


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Subject: Re: st: gllamm dropping variables

Does this lead to a perfect prediction? At any rate, for random effect logistic models, I would use -xtlogit-, as it is faster, and probably more stable, than -gllamm-.

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On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Bontempo, Daniel E <deb193@ku.edu> wrote:
> I have some dummy codes for levels 2 and 3 of a 3-level group variable. With xtmixed, I can use i.group, but with gllamm I have to make dummy codes.
>
> The codes work fine when I run a linear model, but cause the variables 
> to drop when I use link(logit)
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> This runs fine:
> gllamm regPart ae le, i(number) adapt
>
> This won't start:
> gllamm regPart  ae le, i(number) adapt family(binomial) link(logit) 
> variables have been dropped, can't continue r(198);
>
> I assume the variables are dropped for collinearity, but do notunderstand why.
>
> BTW, using glm seems to have no problem:
> glm regPart ae le, link(logit) family(binomial) cluster(number) eform
>
>
> If I use a continuous IV with gllamm it will also run. Why are my dummy codes being dropped?
>
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