Re: st: Decomposition method for discrete-time event-history models?

[Bryan Sayer <bsayer@chrr.osu.edu>]

I am not familiar with Farlie, but you might take a look at predictive 
margins.  You can use the difference of the predicted margin between 
groups to do lots of things.
Bryan Sayer
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On 9/8/2011 5:12 PM, Timo Kauppinen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a simple question for which I haven't been able to find an
> answer, though. Is there a decomposition method similar to Fairlie's
> method (for example) that could be used with person-period data and a
> discrete-time event-history (logit) model? I guess that it is not OK
> just to use fairlie, given the data structure? The groups to be
> compared have unequal sizes. The gap to be decomposed is a difference
> in the probability of entry to home-ownership between two groups.
>
>
>
> Timo Kauppinen Department of Social Research Sociology FI-20014
> University of Turku FINLAND
>
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