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Re: st: Variable Inflation Factor (VIF) for non-linear models
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Variable Inflation Factor (VIF) for non-linear models
Date
Sun, 27 Oct 2013 13:44:19 +0000
The VIFs (plural) depend on the predictors alone and are defined for a
regression model.
-xtpoisson- is a regression model, wide sense, but the machinery is
different. I don't think there is a definition of VIF that is modified
for such models: we are no longer doing any kind of least squares, in
particular.
Nothing stops you doing a multiple regression (with _any_ response) to
get VIFs. The folklore I am aware of implies that multicollinearity
shown up that way could be a severe problem for any kind of model,
regardless of the link function or the exact machinery. On the whole,
multicollinearity seems less of a problem to me than people fear,
provided you show some sensitivity to not including predictors that
have very similar meaning and to the consequences of powers and
products as predictors.
Nick
[email protected]
On 27 October 2013 10:42, James Bernard <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to know if after a count model (xtpoisson command) Stata
> can give me VIF of the predictors?
>
> I looked for it in the post-estimation section of -xtpoisson-, but
> could not find any thing. Is it a theoretical issues that VIF can not
> be calculated for count models? Or, is it a software issues?
>
> Is there any substitute for it in log-linear models? I don't want to
> use correlations to justify absence of multicollinearity.
>
> Thanks,
> James
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