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Re: st: What should I do if stata can not show the result of nbreg


From   Ye SUN <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: What should I do if stata can not show the result of nbreg
Date   Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:49:47 +0800

Thanks all! Those suggestions are very helpful for me!

Ye

On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 3:07 AM, David Hoaglin <[email protected]> wrote:
> The description of your dependent variable suggests that 0 is not a
> possible value: a director, by definition, serves on at least one
> board.  Is the dependent variable actually the number of boards minus
> 1?  If 0 is not a possible value of the dependent variable, you should
> consider a truncated distribution, and such a distribution may be
> appropriate instead of subtracting 1 (if that is the current
> definition).
>
> David Hoaglin
>
> On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 8:25 AM, Ye SUN <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Thanks for reminding.
>> I use stata 11. My dependent variable is the number of boards that a
>> director serves in.(Nboards) My test independent variable is the
>> gender of the director, dummy variable (FD).
>> So I want to run the following regression:  nbreg  Nboards  FD  (other
>> control variables)
>
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