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Re: st: IIA violations and subsequent steps
Thanks Maarten.I am reading the help file.
On 06/08/07, Maarten Buis <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Maarten L. Buis
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> -- Douglas Garrett <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I am currently running a multinomial logistic regression model and
> > have found that it violates the IIA assumption. <snip>
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> --- Xiaoheng Zhang answered:
> > I think IIA is irrelavent to the multinomial logistic regression
> > because it implies that there is no correlation in terms of latent
> > utility between any two alternatives. Just wondering why you think
> > in your case it is violated.
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> IIA is an assumption underlying -mlogit-. It can be tested using
> a Hausman test. For a nice example of how IIA is relevant for
> -mlogit- see the help file of Jeroen Weesie's -iia- under the
> heading `Some fun ("Substantive background")'. You can install
> -iia- by first typing:
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> net cd http://www.fss.uu.nl/soc/iscore/stata/
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> and than:
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> net install iia
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> -- Maarten
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Greetings,
Xiaoheng Zhang (Kevin)
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