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Re: st: xi function dummies being dropped due to collinearity
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"JVerkuilen (Gmail)" <[email protected]>
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Re: st: xi function dummies being dropped due to collinearity
Date
Sat, 25 May 2013 20:57:20 -0400
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Lisa Marie Yarnell
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello Statalisters: I'm using the xi function to create school
> dummies to control for school effects in a quantile regression model,
> using the code below. However, the dummies are all being dropped
> because of collinearity. Why would this happen, and how can I
> alleviate this? Thank you, Lisa
It must be the case that the school IDs are collinear with other
predictors in your model. I would suspect that the N in the dropped
schools is fairly small and that your other predictors end up being
collinear with the dummy, but that's just a guess. Stata might have
done you a favor because I wouldn't be surprised if the dummies end up
being nearly but not totally saturated in other schools, which would
not be happy.
More broadly I don't know what the current literature on quantile
regression suggests in the case of clustering of observations, so I
hope someone else chimes in. Is there a random effects model? (A bit
of Google shows:
http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/~iac879/wp/SimpleQRpanel_EJ.pdf).
--
JVVerkuilen, PhD
[email protected]
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