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Re: st: Survey Design Degrees of Freedom
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Steve Samuels <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Survey Design Degrees of Freedom
Date
Thu, 5 Aug 2010 10:02:29 -0400
Unfortunately, -svyset- will accept -dof()- without a bootstrap in
sight, and the -svy- estimation results will use the assigned degrees
of freedom, even if the value is greater than the number of
observations. I suggest that StataCorp rethink this option.
Steve
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Stas Kolenikov <[email protected]> wrote:
> As far as I understand, -dof()- only applies to -svy bootstrap-, since
> in that case the design d.f. is unknown. With specified PSUs, the
> design d.f. will be derived from the count of PSUs and strata.
>
> Korn & Graubard give some suggestions in their 1999 book. Not that I
> like these suggestions, but for the record, I have to give this
> reference. Looks like you know all this stuff already though.
>
> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:43 AM, SEVIGNY, ERIC <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hello All-
>>
>> I am running an -mlogit- model on complex survey data. In estimating the
>> model, I am running into the all-too-common insufficient degrees of
>> freedom problem (I have 40 PSUs and 10 strata and thus 30 df).
>>
>> There have been a number of suggestions in the literature to work around
>> this issue, e.g., ignore either the strata or PSU boundaries, randomly
>> split each PSU into two pseudo-PSUs, etc.
>>
>> My question revolves around Stata's recent but poorly documented -dof()-
>> option with -svyset-. Regardless of its merit, let's say I want to more
>> than double my df by creating pseudo-PSUs. I could do this manually and
>> randomly divide the PSUs, giving 80 - 10 = 70 df. My question is this:
>> Can I leave the PSUs as is and simply include -dof(70)- in my -svyset-
>> command and achieve in effect the same result?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Eric L. Sevigny, Ph.D.
>> Assistant Professor
>> Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
>> University of South Carolina
>> 1305 Greene St
>> Columbia, SC 29208
>> (803) 777-7043 (office)
>> [email protected]
>>
>>
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