--- On Tue, 19/1/10, Dana Chandler wrote:
> oprobit y pop_1 pop_2 pop_3 pop_4
>
> ... and I would like to constrain each successive
> population parameter has a coefficient lower than the
> previous so that (pop_2-pop_1)>=0, (pop_3-pop_2)>=0, etc.
>
>
> I recognize that there has been a thread (and faq) from a
> few years back (<http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/stat/
intconst.html>) explaining how to set up interval (non-linear)
> constraints using ML to perform a linear regression. However,
> even though the article suggests that I could use the similar
> methodology to derive it for probits, I'm not 100% sure that
> it's directly applicable in my case and for oprobits.
It is also applicable to oprobit, or any other model.
> I have not worked with stata's ML function before. Does
> anyone have any advice?
If you are serious about getting into this type of modeling then
you can't go wrong by getting: William Gould, Jeffrey Pitblado,
William Sribney (2006) Maximum Likelihood Estimation with Stata.
College Station: Stata Press.
http://www.stata.com/bookstore/mle.html
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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