--- "marcel spijkerman" wrote:
> > > I estimate a weighted non-linear model of the
> > > following form:
> > >
> > > y^0.5 = (a1 + a2*X)^0.5 weighted by some other
> > > variable z.
> > >
> > > Stata reports an adjusted R-squared of 1.000. I
> > > suspect this is not correct. How can compute the
> > > correct adjusted R-squared using untransformed
> > > variables?
--- Martin Weiss wrote:
> > Which command did you use for your estimation? If it
> > was non-linear, -nl-?
> > Show us what you typed and what the reply was...
--- On Wed, 20/5/09, marcel spijkerman wrote:
> I indeed typed the command:
>
> nl (sqrt_y = (a1 + a2X)^0.5) [aweight= hhd1564_06]
>
> And the answer is .... :-)
It is surprising that you got output at all, as you
did not specify any parameters. Anyhow, it appears that
you have a convergence problem. So the next step is
not to try to come up with some correct R^2, but to
fix the model. You could try specifing starting
values.
-- Maarten
Ps. -aweights- are very very very rarely the correct
weight type.
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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