Re: st: Hurdle Model Help

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 11:48 PM 2/15/2006, Brooks Taggert J wrote:
> Folks-
>
> So I'm trying to estimate a hurdle model, actually before I do that 
> I'm just trying to replicate the program in Stata Journal Vol 3 
> Issue 2 (p178), in the "From the help desk" section.  It has become 
> maddening.  I've gone over the syntax again and again...even cutting 
> and pasting from the pdf.  But alas, it will not produce the results 
> in the article.  When I run the last line below (ml max, nolog) 
> stata responds with an ' invalid name error.  I assume it is choking 
> on the first generate command, but I don't know why.
>
> Any thoughts?
I suspect that Marten has correctly identified your problem.  I would 
add that Joe Hilbe recently added around a half-dozen hurdle model 
commands to ssc, so perhaps one of them would meet your needs.  Do

findit hurdle


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