--- Carol Bao <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am wondering if anyone has attempted ordered probit
> estimation using SAS as well as STATA? We find that
> the resuls (both the estimates on the threshold values
> and the explanatory variables) are quite different
> using the two software. Is this "normal" and what the
> explanations might be?
Carol:
I have no experience with SAS but this is normal since
a ordered probit needs to constrain either the threshold
values or the constant to be identified and different
software chooses different identifying constraints.
Different identifying constraints lead to parameters that
look very different, but if properly interpreted, lead to
exactly the same conclussions.
HTH,
Maarten
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Department of Social Research Methodology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
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http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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