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Re: st: negative variance components and xtmixed
From
Scott Baldwin <[email protected]>
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[email protected]
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Re: st: negative variance components and xtmixed
Date
Sat, 30 Jun 2012 13:14:17 -0600
Hi Jordan, I am not aware of any way to allow variances to be negative
in xtmixed (i.e., nothing similar to the nobound option in SAS).
However, if you are fitting a random intercept model, you can model
the correlation within cluster (which can be negative) as an
alternative to modeling the variance among the cluster means (which is
what you are doing in a random intercept model). This has been
discussed previously -- for example, see the following thread:
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2010-09/msg00149.html
Hope that helps.
Best,
Scott
On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Jordan Silberman
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Can anyone tell me if xtmixed allows variance components to be negative? Is
> there an option I must specify after xtmixed that will cause xtmixed to
> allow negative variance components?
>
> Thanks,
> Jordan
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