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From | "Stepien, Paulina" <paulina.stepien.09@ucl.ac.uk> |
To | "statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>, "jjotterson@gmail.com" <jjotterson@gmail.com> |
Subject | st: IIA test for multinomial logit |
Date | Wed, 29 Jan 2014 14:52:01 +0000 |
Dear Stata Users, I am trying to perform an IIA test for multinomial logit where dependent variable employment status (empl_st6) has 4 categories: 0 unemployed, 1 employed for wages, 2 self-employed, 3 employer. I have tried running the test in two ways, none of which seem to be working. Firstly, I have run mlogit regression followed by mlogtest, smhsiao. This command returns following error messages: 'problem determining number of categories' and 'factor variables and time series operators not allowed'. I have looked at the dependent variable specification but not sure what may be wrong with it. I have also looked at all potential factor variables and time series markers but even after eliminating potential culprits the test does not work. One advice I have found on stata blog is to continue setting seeds until it works, which I have tried with no success. I am not sure how many times I should try before I give up. Secondly, I have tried running smhsiao empl_st6, elim(0) but two problems occur here: the regression fails to calculate chi2 and an error message comes up saying 'equation unemployed not found'. When I recode categories to run from 1-4 instead 0-3, the error message does not come up but chi2 is still not being calculated. I would be most grateful if someone could advise what I am doing wrong or whether there is any solution to this problem. Thank you in advance. Paulina * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/