Re: st: Testing the IIA assumption after running the mlogit

[Richard Williams <richardwilliams.ndu@gmail.com>]

At 08:16 PM 7/11/2012, Patricia Yu wrote:
> Dear Statalist,
>
> After running the multinomial logistic regression model, I would 
> like to test the independence of irrelevant alternatives assumption 
> (IIA). However, I heard that the Stata command "mlogtest, iia" no 
> longer works with factor variables. So, what Stata command should I 
> use to test the IIA assumption?
> Thanks,
> Patricia
-mlogtest- is a command written by Long and Freese that is part of 
their -spost9- package. I imagine the easiest thing would be to just 
not use factor variables; compute any dummies yourself if necessary.

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