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Re: st: Heteroscedastic logit model
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Heteroscedastic logit model
Date
Fri, 20 May 2011 09:59:05 +0100
Yes, but that doesn't mean that nothing can be done by way of thinking
about this.
Also, why this cultural assumption that every question of model
assessment and scrutiny is a testing question?
Why not calculate your residuals and then inspect for
heteroscedasticity and think about what it means?
Nick
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Maarten Buis <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Dieter Somers wrote:
>> I was also wondering whether there exists a general test that checks
>> for heteroscedasticity in a conditional logit model (for instance a
>> command similar to the 'hettest') ?
>
> Heteroskedasticity is a much biger problem and much harder to check in
> non-linear models than in linear regression, so I think that no such
> test exists or even can exist. At some point you have to live with the
> fact that your model contains assumptions that cannot be tested. For
> more on this, see:
> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2010-11/msg00996.html
>
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