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Re: st: Change in explained variance
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Richard Williams <[email protected]> 
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[email protected],        "[email protected]" <[email protected]> 
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Re: st: Change in explained variance 
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Mon, 17 Sep 2012 23:22:57 -0500 
At 09:51 PM 9/17/2012, Thomas Didier wrote:
Hi all,
I am running a multinomial logit model and would like to determine 
whether the inclusion of an explanatory variable in the model 
increases the percentage of explained variance in a statistically 
significant manner. I am concerned that when running the model with 
and without the variable of interest, its impact is diluted by a 
substitution effect.
Would an F-test (Fisher) be appropriate for such measurement and can 
it be run on Stata?
Thank you in advance for your help,
I would do something like
mlogit y x1 x2 x3
est store m1
mlogit y x1 x2 x3 x4
est store m2
lrtest m1 m2, stats
or else
mlogit y x1 x2 x3 x4
test x4
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