Alexandra Wilson wrote:
How do you determine the efficacy of a binary panel regression (xtlogit)? I
(sadly) do not expect that my regression explains much of the variation, as
I am more concerned with looking at the differences between variables, but I
would like to be able to report how much variation is explained.
This regression (output below) looks at the effect of different attributes
of marital status (wstat2-7, and COWIVES), and presence of kin (frel2) on
the probability of giving birth to a surviving child in a particular year
(BIRTH1), controlling for age (using centred age, agem, and centred age
squared, agemsq) and number of previous marriages (PREVMNO).
[...]
tsset PNO YEAR
panel variable: PNO (unbalanced)
time variable: YEAR, 1925 to 1995
. xtlogit BIRTH1 COWIVES PREVMNO wstat2 wstat3 wstat4 wstat5 wstat7 frel2
agem agemsq, re
[...]
-estat gof-?
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