Dan,
I don´t know if understood your question. However, from the -h mlogit-:
baseoutcome(#) specifies the value of depvar to be treated as the
base outcome. The default is to choose the most frequent outcome.
HTH,
Joao Lima
2009/3/28 Dan Waldo <[email protected]>:
> Hello, all ...
>
> I am running Stata10/SE, and am doing a series of multinomial logistic regressions.
>
> It's clear that Stata uses information from the
> char ageg[omit] 3
> instruction (for example) when setting up the explanatory variables. But such is not the case for the dependent variable.
>
> Again for example, the variable flushot is dichotemous with values 1,2 referring to yes,no.
>
> -char flushot[omit] 2
> -xi: svy: mlogit flushot i.adjsmoker i.ageg i.rostsex i.myrace i.my_income i.my_ed i.my_dwell i.placepar , rr
>
> produces a regression in which (flushot==Yes is the base outcome)
>
> -xi: svy: mlogit flushot i.adjsmoker i.ageg i.rostsex i.myrace i.my_income i.my_ed i.my_dwell i.placepar , rr b(2)
>
> produces a regression in which (flushot==No is the base outcome)
>
> Am I out of luck is hoping that Stata will use the default reference category when the variable is used as a dependent variable?
>
> Dan Waldo
>
>
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