st: RE: RE: identifying perfect outcome predictor

["Feiveson, Alan H. (JSC-SK311)" <alan.h.feiveson@nasa.gov>]

Brilliant! All I really wanted was a linear classifier, so your
suggestion works perfectly. 

Thanks, Roger.

Al 

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I personally use -glm- (with the options -link(logit) family(bin)-)
instead of -logit-. That way, the offending parameters are allowed to
"converge" to plus or minus infinity without an error message. And the
guilty parameters are then displayed for all to read.

I hope this helps.

Roger 


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[mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Feiveson,
Alan H. (JSC-SK311)
Sent: 05 May 2008 18:34
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: st: identifying perfect outcome predictor

Hi - I am running logistic regression on simulated data sets. However
sometimes one of the explanatory variables completely separates the
outcome variable and I get a message such as 

outcome = X2 <= .1955861 predicts data perfectly r(2000);

Presumably if I get a return code of 2000, I know this has occurred -
but is there information in logit postestimation to tell which variable
gives perfect separation (as opposed to checking each one "by hand")?

Thanks

Al Feiveson

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