Re: st: How choose the baseline in gologit2 ?

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@nd.edu>]

At 01:00 PM 10/13/2006, mendola wrote:
> Dear STATA users, I began to use STATA two months ago and now I am 
> trying to use
> gologit2. It seems very flexible and moreover very helpful for my research.
> I estimated a generalized ordered logit and it seems ok, but I'm not 
> able to find a way
> to set my favourite baseline for the response variable (something 
> like baseoutcome()
> for mlogit).
> It is reasonable to change it or there is some methodological aspect 
> that I'm ignoring?
> If it is reasonable, how can I change the default reference level 
> for the outcome
> variable?
Because gologit2 is an ordinal method, the highest category is always 
the one excluded.  You could reverse the coding of the outcome if you 
wanted the lowest value to be excluded.  I don't think it would make 
sense to exclude one of the intermediate categories.

For more on gologit2, see

http://www.nd.edu/~rwilliam/gologit2/index.html


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