Re: st: Multicollinearity

[Cordula Stolberg <cs32@sussex.ac.uk>]

Clive,

Thanks for your help. I had run the -collin- command and strangely enough, 
the -i.dneg_slvk- variable didn't seem to pose a problem. However, when I 
dropped the variable altogether from the model, the results improved 
considerably. Not quite sure what that means, but I'm working on it.

Cordula

--On 07 August 2004 04:09 +0100 Clive Nicholas 
<Clive.Nicholas@newcastle.ac.uk> wrote:


> Cordula Stolberg wrote:
>
> > I have a question related to multicollinearity. I run the following
> > regression:
> >
> > xi: ivreg2 lfrag lfdi (lspec = lexp liit76 liit54) i.dapp_cz i.dapp
> > i.dapp_slvk i.dag i.dneg i.dneg_slvk i.dgo i.dcz i.dhun i.dslvk
> >
> > The problem is that Stata -no matter whether I use -ivreg2-, -reg-, or
> > -xtreg- includes the variable "i.dneg_slvk" always twice and then drops
> > it to avoid multicollinearity (see below):
> [...]
>
> > Does anyone know why Stata does this and how I can avoid it? Any
> > suggestions would be much appreciated.
> I think this is a problem that has to be 'played by eye', as it were. One
> solution would be to download Phil Ender's -collin- package from SSC, so
> that you can evaulate just which variables are co-linear with which
> others. Once done, you then have to make a judgement as to whether those
> variables that have very low tolerance ought to be dropped manually from
> your model, which very well include the variable in question.
>
> I hope that helps.
>
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