[Limdep Nlogit List] hyper parameters a b in random effects negbin

[William Greene]

Steven. I don't think that is true at all. They are the two parameters of some
underlying beta distribution, and so far as I know, do not have a direct
interpretation. You should check the 1984 Hausman, Hall and Griliches (Econometrica)
paper where that model was created for more details. For my money, the random
effects NB model should be created by having a random parameters NB model in which
the constant term is a random parameter. That puts it on the same platform as other
familiar random effects models.
Regards,
Bill Greene

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From: "Steven Thornburg" <sthornburg at wsu.edu>
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Subject: [Limdep Nlogit List] hyper parameters a b in random effects negbin

Dr Greene
Is it safe to say that the hyper parameters in the random effects negative binomial model [a, b ] can be interpreted as [mean dispersion across groups, variance of dispersion across groups] ?


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