RE: st: endogenous dichotomous variables in SEM

[Cameron McIntosh <cnm100@hotmail.com>]

Hi Ed,

I don't think so, unless SEM allows polychoric/tetrachoric correlations (I seem to recall this option is at present unavailable in the Stata implementation). If you have no latent variables, you could use -cmp-:

Roodman, D. (2011). Fitting fully observed recursive mixed-process models with cmp. The Stata Journal, 11(2), 159-206.

http://www.stata-journal.com/article.html?article=st0224

http://ideas.repec.org/c/boc/bocode/s456882.html

And if latents are involved, I think -gllamm- would be the optimal choice in Stata:

www.gllamm.org

Cam

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> Subject: st: endogenous dichotomous variables in SEM
> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:53:39 -0500
> From: levitas@uwm.edu
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> Hello Statalisters,
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> Can STATA's SEM ado be used to estimate a system of equations where endogenous (outcome) variable is dichotomous?
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> Thanks
> Ed
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