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Re: st: linear probability model (LPM)


From   Stijn Bruyneel <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: linear probability model (LPM)
Date   Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:23:25 +0200

a LPM is running OLS although the dependent variable is dichotomous.  It is not
recommended to run a LPM unless for tutoring.

So regress should indeed do it.

Quoting Vanessa Mahlberg <[email protected]>:

> My dependent variable is dichotomous (zero for low work satisfaction and
> one for high work satisfaction). I would like to run a linear
> probability model (LPM) instead of a probit model- but I don?t really
> know the right stata command. I read in some articles that I should use
> the "regress" command?!? But in my opinion it must be something like
> STATISTICS- BINARY OUTCOMES-???
>
>
> I would appreciate any help.
> Thanks a lot
> Vanessa
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Stijn Bruyneel
Ph.D. student
Hasselt University
Department of Business Administration
Faculty of Applied Economics
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