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Re: st: rho in biprobit


From   Maarten buis <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: rho in biprobit
Date   Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:04:23 +0000 (GMT)

--- Nirina F <[email protected]> wrote:
> In my biprobit I get rho=0.6 and 0.7 and then to 3.
> I thought that rho has to be between -1 and 1. Am I right?
> What is the econometric meaning of this rho being 3 then?   If this
> is nonsense then why does Stata runs and give that result anyway?

Looks to me that you are looking at /athrho instead of rho. /athrho is
the Fisher's z transformed rho, and can range from minus infinity to
plus infinity.

-- Maarten


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