Fwd: st: ordered dependent variable

[Nicole Feliciani <nicole.feliciani00@gmail.com>]

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From: Nicole Feliciani <nicole.feliciani00@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 11:22:41 +0200
Subject: Re: st: ordered dependent variable
To: Statalist <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>

Thank you very much for your suggestions Nick.
As you guess my variable is coded from 1 to 6 and I was thinking about
getting its conditional mean and the use it as the new dependent variable
with the xtreg command.
If  I understood rightly this is the tecnique suggested by
Ferrer-i-Carbonell and van Praag 2004, but I do not know how to implement
it in Stata.
Any suggestion?

Thanks a lot.

Nicole

Il giorno 15/ago/2013 10:13, "Nick Cox" <njcoxstata@gmail.com> ha scritto:
>
> I should add that nothing stops you calculating numerical scores or
> even assigning them arbitrarily and there are methods that will do
> that for you (e.g. correspondence analysis), but there is no single
> agreed method to do that, and their applicability is contentious.
>
> The literature in your field will be a guide to what is considered as
> widely acceptable. That doesn't stop you doing something different,
> but be careful.
> Nick
> njcoxstata@gmail.com
>
>
> On 15 August 2013 08:50, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Explaining exactly what your dependent variable is would clarify your
> > question, but I guess that you have ordered (ordinal, graded) scales,
> > such as 5-point scales, indicating relative satisfaction. To apply
> > ordinal probit, you would need to code those numerically, say as 1 to
> > 5.
> >
> > Nothing then stops you using exactly the same values in a standard
> > regression. No transformation is needed.
> >
> > But that's a big jump: you are now treating the values as if they were
> > interval scale at least. (Being continuous or discrete is not quite
> > the main issue.)
> >
> > So, now expect big arguments from any likely audience, many, perhaps
> > most, of whom are likely to regard this as invalid or meaningless or
> > at the very least problematic.
> >
> > "in Stata" doesn't seem important here. The issues are statistical and
> > (social) scientific.
> >
> > Nick
> > njcoxstata@gmail.com
> >
> > On 15 August 2013 05:58, Nicole Feliciani <nicole.feliciani00@gmail.com>
wrote:
> >
> >> I am new to Stata and I am estimating the effect of holding a partime
> >> job on job and life's satisfaction.
> >> My dependent variable is an ordered one.  I know I can apply an
> >> ordered probit, but I would like to perform also an OLS regression.
> >> For this purpose I need to transform my ordered variable in a
> >> continuos one.  Does anyone know how to do it in Stata?
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