Dear Dilek,
for me, works fine, the same coeffs, se and significance levels:
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mlogit insure age male nonwhite site2 site3
mlogit insure nonwhite site2 site3 age male
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Is your outreg updated in desktop and laptop?
. which outreg
c:\ado\plus\o\outreg.ado
*! version 3.1.8 16mar07 by [email protected]
*! Write formatted regression output to a text file
. mlogit insure age male nonwhite site2 site3
Iteration 0: log likelihood = -555.85446
Iteration 1: log likelihood = -534.72983
Iteration 2: log likelihood = -534.36536
Iteration 3: log likelihood = -534.36165
Iteration 4: log likelihood = -534.36165
Multinomial logistic regression Number of obs = 615
LR chi2(10) = 42.99
Prob > chi2 = 0.0000
Log likelihood = -534.36165 Pseudo R2 = 0.0387
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insure | Coef. Std. Err. z P>|z| [95% Conf. Interval]
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Prepaid |
age | -.011745 .0061946 -1.90 0.058 -.0238862 .0003962
male | .5616934 .2027465 2.77 0.006 .1643175 .9590693
nonwhite | .9747768 .2363213 4.12 0.000 .5115955 1.437958
site2 | .1130359 .2101903 0.54 0.591 -.2989296 .5250013
site3 | -.5879879 .2279351 -2.58 0.010 -1.034733 -.1412433
_cons | .2697127 .3284422 0.82 0.412 -.3740222 .9134476
-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
Uninsure |
age | -.0077961 .0114418 -0.68 0.496 -.0302217 .0146294
male | .4518496 .3674867 1.23 0.219 -.268411 1.17211
nonwhite | .2170589 .4256361 0.51 0.610 -.6171725 1.05129
site2 | -1.211563 .4705127 -2.57 0.010 -2.133751 -.2893747
site3 | -.2078123 .3662926 -0.57 0.570 -.9257327 .510108
_cons | -1.286943 .5923219 -2.17 0.030 -2.447872 -.1260135
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(insure==Indemnity is the base outcome)
. mlogit insure nonwhite site2 site3 age male
Iteration 0: log likelihood = -555.85446
Iteration 1: log likelihood = -534.72983
Iteration 2: log likelihood = -534.36536
Iteration 3: log likelihood = -534.36165
Iteration 4: log likelihood = -534.36165
Multinomial logistic regression Number of obs = 615
LR chi2(10) = 42.99
Prob > chi2 = 0.0000
Log likelihood = -534.36165 Pseudo R2 = 0.0387
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insure | Coef. Std. Err. z P>|z| [95% Conf. Interval]
-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
Prepaid |
nonwhite | .9747768 .2363213 4.12 0.000 .5115955 1.437958
site2 | .1130359 .2101903 0.54 0.591 -.2989296 .5250013
site3 | -.5879879 .2279351 -2.58 0.010 -1.034733 -.1412433
age | -.011745 .0061946 -1.90 0.058 -.0238862 .0003962
male | .5616934 .2027465 2.77 0.006 .1643175 .9590693
_cons | .2697127 .3284422 0.82 0.412 -.3740222 .9134476
-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
Uninsure |
nonwhite | .2170589 .4256361 0.51 0.610 -.6171725 1.05129
site2 | -1.211563 .4705127 -2.57 0.010 -2.133751 -.2893747
site3 | -.2078123 .3662926 -0.57 0.570 -.9257327 .510108
age | -.0077961 .0114418 -0.68 0.496 -.0302217 .0146294
male | .4518496 .3674867 1.23 0.219 -.268411 1.17211
_cons | -1.286943 .5923219 -2.17 0.030 -2.447872 -.1260135
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(insure==Indemnity is the base outcome)
2008/7/28 Dilek Cetin <[email protected]>:
> Dear statalisters
>
> I have two problems with multinomial logit estimation.
>
> 1. I run the first regression, mlogit y x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 x6 x7 .... x20
> then I run the second regressin which is mlogit y x1 x2 x3 x7 ... x20 x4 x5
> zx6
> y=1, ...,5
>
> In the second regression the coefficents, standart errors and significance
> levels are totally different.
>
> Even if I have tried the robust estimation, the problem still exists.
>
> In the multinomial logit estimation why the order of the independents are
> matter???
>
> 2. When I used the outreg command after mlogit in my desktop, I have 4
> categories in the output file (y=1, ...,5 - outcome(1) is the base outcome).
> When I used this command in my laptop, I have only one category in the
> output file. How can I solve this problem?
>
> All the best
> Thanks
>
> Dilek
>
>
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