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Re: st: regression with dependent variable ranging from 0 to 1


From   Maarten buis <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: regression with dependent variable ranging from 0 to 1
Date   Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:16:37 +0000 (GMT)

--- Andrea Rispoli <[email protected]> wrote:
> It is an Herfindahl index of concentration, it ranges from 0 to 1 (in
> principle) : in my specific case:
> 
> Variable |       Obs        Mean    Std. Dev.       Min        Max
>
-------------+--------------------------------------------------------
>  H         |    213620    .0190621    .0920916          0   .6477536

How many zeros do you have? ( type in Stata: -count if H == float(0)- )
Even though it is possible for a fractional logit to model a dependent
variable that includes zero (and one), if there are too many of these,
then that might indicate that these zeros occur due to a separate
process and need to be modeled separately.

-- Maarten

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