st: simulation for generalized ordered logit models

[Jun Xu <mystata@hotmail.com>]

Statalisters,

I am trying to study performance of some extensions of the order logit models (e.g., generalized ordered logit models and partial proportionality models.  However, it appears the data generating process is a bit tricky.  My problem is that I don't know (or I don't know if I did it right) how to turn latent y's into an observed ordered response variable.  In addition, because of that, I think the gologit2 estimates seem to be off quite a bit.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Jun Xu, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
Ball State University
Muncie, IN 47306

. // clear out memory and set seed
. clear all
. set more off
. set obs 50000
. set seed 15243

. // create four normally distributed x's
. gen double x1 = 1*invnorm(uniform()) - 2
. gen double x2 = 2*invnorm(uniform()) - 1
. gen double x3 = 3*invnorm(uniform()) + 1
. gen double x4 = 4*invnorm(uniform()) + 2

. // create probability to be transformed into logistically distributed variables below
. gen e1 = uniform()

. gen e2 = uniform()

.  // create a latent variable for odds of y = 3 vs. y=2, 1  
. gen ylat1 = -1 +  0.25*x1 - 0.7*x2 + 0.3*x3 + 1.2*x4 + log(e1/(1-e1))
. // create another latent variable for odds of y = 3, 2 vs. y = 1
. gen ylat2 =  2 +  0.25*x1 + 0.3*x2 + 0.2*x3 + 0.8*x4 + log(e2/(1-e2))

. 
. sum ylat1 ylat2

    Variable |       Obs        Mean    Std. Dev.       Min        Max
-------------+--------------------------------------------------------
       ylat1 |     50000    1.895159    5.392776  -20.57706   24.00623
       ylat2 |     50000    3.004502    3.786819  -14.42388   20.64439

 
. gen int yobs = 2

. replace yobs = 3 if ylat2 >0
(39384 real changes made)

. replace yobs = 1 if ylat1 <0
(18278 real changes made)

. // denote cases with ylat > 0 & ylat1 <0 to be deleted afterward
. // because of the contradiction in recoding; that is, should they be coded
. // as 3 or 1  

. gen ctrd = (ylat2 > 0 & ylat1 <0) 




           |         ctrd
      yobs |         0          1 |     Total
-----------+----------------------+----------
         1 |     8,627      9,651 |    18,278 
         2 |     1,989          0 |     1,989 
         3 |    29,733          0 |    29,733 
-----------+----------------------+----------
     Total |    40,349      9,651 |    50,000 


. drop if ctrd == 1
(9651 observations deleted)

. 
. tab yobs, m

       yobs |      Freq.     Percent        Cum.
------------+-----------------------------------
          1 |      8,627       21.38       21.38
          2 |      1,989        4.93       26.31
          3 |     29,733       73.69      100.00
------------+-----------------------------------
      Total |     40,349      100.00

. 
. gologit2 yobs x1 x2 x3 x4,

Generalized Ordered Logit Estimates               Number of obs   =      40349
                                                  LR chi2(8)      =   39104.00
                                                  Prob > chi2     =     0.0000
Log likelihood = -8821.1251                       Pseudo R2       =     0.6891

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        yobs |      Coef.   Std. Err.      z    P>|z|     [95% Conf. Interval]
-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
1            |
          x1 |   .3643754   .0223432    16.31   0.000     .3205835    .4081673
          x2 |  -.3713747   .0131601   -28.22   0.000    -.3971681   -.3455813
          x3 |   .3775103   .0093891    40.21   0.000      .359108    .3959126
          x4 |   1.457066   .0166926    87.29   0.000     1.424349    1.489783
       _cons |   1.191765   .0569216    20.94   0.000     1.080201    1.303329
-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
2            |
          x1 |   .3453517   .0215363    16.04   0.000     .3031413    .3875621
          x2 |  -.0367582   .0118087    -3.11   0.002    -.0599027   -.0136136
          x3 |   .3121494   .0082156    37.99   0.000      .296047    .3282517
          x4 |   1.255422    .014501    86.58   0.000     1.227001    1.283844
       _cons |   .4242695   .0532812     7.96   0.000     .3198402    .5286988
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

WARNING! 2363 in-sample cases have an outcome with a predicted probability that is
less than 0. See the gologit2 help section on Warning Messages for more information.

 		 	   		  
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