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st: oglm 1.1.2 now available from SSC


From   Richard Williams <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: oglm 1.1.2 now available from SSC
Date   Fri, 02 Feb 2007 22:45:15 -0500

Thanks to Kit Baum, an updated version of -oglm- is now available from SSC. The old version computed Pseudo R^2 incorrectly when pweights were used. This problem has been fixed and there have also been minor improvements in the documentation.

oglm estimates Ordinal Generalized Linear Models. When these models include equations for heteroskedasticity they are also known as heterogeneous choice/ location-scale / heteroskedastic ordinal regression models. oglm supports multiple link functions, including logit (the default), probit, complementary log-log, log-log and cauchit.

When an ordinal regression model incorrectly assumes that error variances are the same for all cases, the standard errors are wrong and (unlike OLS regression) the parameter estimates are biased. Heterogeneous choice/ location-scale models explicitly specify the determinants of heteroskedasticity in an attempt to correct for it. Further, these models can be used when the variance/variability of underlying attitudes is itself of substantive interest. Alvarez and Brehm (1995), for example, argued that individuals whose core values are in conflict will have a harder time making a decision about abortion and will hence have greater variability/error variances in their responses.

Several special cases of ordinal generalized linear models can also be estimated by oglm, including the parallel lines models of ologit and oprobit (where error variances are assumed to be homoskedastic), the heteroskedastic probit model of hetprob (where the dependent variable must be a dichotomy and the only link allowed is probit), the binomial generalized linear models of logit, probit and cloglog (which also assume homoskedasticity), as well as similar models that are not otherwise estimated by Stata. This makes oglm particularly useful for testing whether constraints on a model (e.g. homoskedastic errors) are justified, or for determining whether one link function is more appropriate for the data than are others.

Other features of oglm include support for linear constraints, making it possible, for example, to impose and test the constraint that the effects of x1 and x2 are equal. oglm works with several prefix commands, including by, nestreg, xi, svy and sw. Its predict command includes the ability to compute estimated probabilities. The actual values taken on by the dependent variable are irrelevant except that larger values are assumed to correspond to "higher" outcomes. Up to 20 outcomes are allowed. oglm was inspired by the SPSS PLUM routine but differs somewhat in its terminology, labeling of links, and the variables that are allowed when modeling heteroskedasticity.

More information on oglm can be found at

http://www.nd.edu/~rwilliam/oglm/index.html



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