Hi Monika,
That makes two of us. I wish someone can open us up.
On 16/09/2008, Martin Weiss <[email protected]> wrote:
> As -h lrtest- says: " lrtest performs a likelihood-ratio test for the null
> hypothesis that the parameter vector of a statistical model satisfies some
> smooth constraint." The null is clearly rejected in your case so there is no
> support for the restricted (nested) model B...
>
> HTH
> Martin
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Monika Baron
> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 3:20 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: Likelihood-ratio test for frontier models
>
> Hello everyone!
>
> I'm modelling a Stochastic Cost Frontier with the command frontier.
> I'm trying to find the model's best functional form by using a
> Likelihood-ratio test.
>
> My output:
> ********
> . lrtest A B, stats
>
> Likelihood-ratio test LR chi2(6) =
> 49.42
> (Assumption: B nested in A) Prob > chi2 =
> 0.0000
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -
> Model | Obs ll(null) ll(model) df AIC BIC
> -------------+--------------------------------------------------------------
> -
> B | 439 . 548.5923 17 -1063.185 -993.748
> A | 439 . 573.3007 23 -1100.601 -1006.658
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -
> Note: N=Obs used in calculating BIC; see [R] BIC note
>
> *********
>
> 1. Why are there no ll(null) in the statistics?
>
> 2. What do the results imply? Which model should I choose?
>
>
> Thanks
> Monika
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