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Re: st: probit convergence -- or not


From   [email protected]
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: probit convergence -- or not
Date   Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:38:36 +0000

Thanks so much, Maarten.
I'll look into that.
--David

-------------- Original message from Maarten buis <[email protected]>: -------------- 

> --- [email protected] wrote: 
> > I'm running a probit on a set of many thousands of observations. 
> > There are a few thousand variables involved, most of which are 
> > dummies hith very few 1s. 
> > (I weeded out the constant-0 variables ahead of time.) 
> 
> This to me sounds like you are trying to do some kind of fixed effects 
> model by adding dummies. Bad news is you can't do it that way: 
> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2007-10/msg00935.html 
> 
> The good news is that you can do an fixed effects logit with -xtlogit-. 
> 
> This is also more likely to converge. 
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