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Re: st: Maximum sizes Nested Logit
Rodrigo Alegria inquired about the limits of -nlogit-. His model
specifications are
> - Location choice firm in 25 countries (upper level) and 246
> regions belonging to those countries (lower level)
> - I have 6,475 location choices.
> - Explanatory variables are economic country and region
> characteristics.
>
> The estimation does not work. It recognizes the nested structure but
> after that the computer seem to run the model but not results appear,
> even no iterations.
>
> I was wondering whether there is a maximum size restriction in the
> number of alternatives, nests or observations to estimate a nested logit
> with Stata.
This model is a multinomial model with 6,475 alternatives (ignoring the nested
structure). You must be running SE since the -tabulate- limit for SE is 12,000
and 3,000 for Intercooled and we use -tabulate- to tally the alternatives.
You are estimating 25+246 inclusive-value parameters plus the parameters
associated with the covariates. This is a lot of parameters. The -nlogit-
likelihood evaluator computes analytic first order derivatives and the -ml-
optimization algorithm defaults to the bfgs algorithm (it is not
approximating the negative hessian using finite differencing).
It sounds like the algorithm was running, but you will have to wait a long
time. Several days? A week? Moreover, after the final step -ml- wll
approximate the negative hessian numerically to compute the coefficient
standard errors. This will take a while.
You may not even be getting past the inital estimate computation. If you want
more feedback from -nlogit- use the clogit option to see the initial estimates
computed by -clogit-. This will allow you to see if you are even getting to
-nlogit-'s call to -ml-. A call to -clogit- is made for each level in your
hierarchy. You will have three calls to -clogit-. In each of these calls the
group variable (individuals) is the same as that for -nlogit- and there are
multiple choices for each group for levels 1 (country) and 2 (region). So if
individual 1 choose location 1 in region 1 and country 1, and assuming there
are 10 regions in country 1 and 500 locations within region 1, there will be
500 1's and 5,975 0's for the dependent variable for -clogit- for that
individual for the first -clogit- call. I believe this will never work.
For example, using the restaurant data we can list the data that is feed
into -clogit-
. nlogit chosen (restaurant=distance) (type=inc1 inc2), group(family_id) clogit
tree structure specified for the nested logit model
top --> bottom
type restaurant
--------------------------
type1 Freebirds
MamasPizza
type2 CafeEccell
LosNorte~s
WingsNmore
type3 Christop~s
MadCows
level 1 data for -clogit-
group y altern covariates
+----------------------------------------------+
| __000004 __00000C __00000A inc1 inc2 |
|----------------------------------------------|
1. | 1 1 type1 39 0 |
2. | 1 1 type1 39 0 |
3. | 1 0 type2 0 39 |
4. | 1 0 type2 0 39 |
5. | 1 0 type2 0 39 |
6. | 1 0 type3 0 0 |
7. | 1 0 type3 0 0 |
|----------------------------------------------|
8. | 2 0 type1 58 0 |
9. | 2 0 type1 58 0 |
10. | 2 1 type2 0 58 |
11. | 2 1 type2 0 58 |
12. | 2 1 type2 0 58 |
13. | 2 0 type3 0 0 |
14. | 2 0 type3 0 0 |
|----------------------------------------------|
15. | 3 1 type1 30 0 |
...
level 2 data for -clogit-
group y altern covariate
+----------------------------------------------+
| __000004 chosen __000009 distance |
|----------------------------------------------|
1. | 1 1 Freebirds 1.245553 |
2. | 1 0 MamasPizza 2.82493 |
3. | 1 0 CafeEccell 4.21293 |
4. | 1 0 LosNortenos 4.167634 |
5. | 1 0 WingsNmore 6.330531 |
6. | 1 0 Christophers 10.19829 |
7. | 1 0 MadCows 5.601388 |
|----------------------------------------------|
8. | 2 0 Freebirds 4.162657 |
9. | 2 0 MamasPizza 2.865081 |
10. | 2 0 CafeEccell 5.337799 |
11. | 2 1 LosNortenos 4.282864 |
12. | 2 0 WingsNmore 8.133914 |
13. | 2 0 Christophers 8.664631 |
14. | 2 0 MadCows 9.119597 |
|----------------------------------------------|
15. | 3 1 Freebirds 2.112586 |
16. | 3 0 MamasPizza 2.215329 |
....
initial estimates from -clogit-
Initial values obtained using clogitDependent variable = chosen
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Coef. Std. Err. z P>|z| [95% Conf. Interval]
-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
restaurant |
distance | -.0294047 .029446 -1.00 0.318 -.0871177 .0283084
-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
type |
inc1 | -.0301699 .0065045 -4.64 0.000 -.0429186 -.0174212
inc2 | .0223203 .0031994 6.98 0.000 .0160496 .0285909
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
initial: log likelihood = -534.72912
-Rich
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