On 10/29/08, Claudio Cruz Cazares <[email protected]> wrote:
> When using mprobit with the cluster option if enough for controlling for the unobservable hetereogenity in the panel? Is the unobservable hetereogenity and correlation between observations are controlled in mixlogit since the "group" and "id" options are specified?
No, all the -cluster- options do is they correct the estimating
equations for possible correlations between individuals. If you want
to take those into account more accurately you need to come up with
more complicated models. Think of the difference between linear
regression and panel data models: you can do -cluster- with regress,
but that will still give you biased point estimates if you have random
effects correlated with regressors. Same story here.
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