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RE: st: Problem with gllamm adaptive quadrature


From   Maarten buis <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   RE: st: Problem with gllamm adaptive quadrature
Date   Sat, 1 Dec 2007 09:25:03 +0000 (GMT)

--- Barth Riley <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > I am running a multilevel logistic model using gllamm. <snip> 
> > > I get the following error message: "initial vector: matrix must
> > > be dimension 28" <snip> There are 28 terms in the initial set of
> > > coefficients, so why would I get this error message? 

--- Maarten buis answered:
> > Does the set of dummies contain the reference category? <snip>

--- Barth Riley <[email protected]> wrote:
> Each dummy represents a category for each question. So do I need to
> leave out the reference category dummy for each question (e.g., leave
> out d1_0 from d1_0, d1_1, d1_2) or just one dummy variable?

One for each question: The dummies are stand-ins for a categorical
variable. In your case you have a categorical variable for each
question, so you have as many reference categories as there are
questions.

-- Maarten

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Maarten L. Buis
Department of Social Research Methodology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands

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+31 20 5986715

http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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