-- Viktor Slavtchev wrote:
> I want to explain the share of time, that individuals spent in five
> alternatives (y1 - y5). Hence y1+y2+y3+y4+y5=1.
> Therefore I run:
> dirifit y1-y5, mu(x1 x2)
> It works, however, for only 60 cases out of more than 500. In other
> words, the estimation is done for only 60 cases.
> Indeed, there are exactly 60 individuals which spent their full time
> in only one possibility.
That is weird, it should actually exclude all casses where one category
gets all the time or no time at all. -dirifit- works as expectd if I do
the following:
use http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/c/citybudget.dta
dirifit governing - urbanplanning, ///
mu( houseval popdens noleft minorityleft )
-- Maarten
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