[Limdep Nlogit List] Help to estimate equality constrained latent class model

S Tarfasa gutamajale at gmail.com
Fri Mar 17 14:19:37 AEDT 2017


Dear sir,

Thank you for your help.
I already got the solution.


On 16 Mar 2017 11:16 pm, "Thomas Eagle" <teagle at tceagle.com> wrote:

> Why do you want to constrain all parameters across 8 of the classes, set a
> different to zero in the first 8, and all parameters to be zero in the last
> class?  What kind of latent class model is that?  The purpose of a latent
> class choice model is to find different groups of respondents who have
> differing parameter values across classes?  Usually one fits an
> unconstrained LC choice model and then imposes constraints to make the
> model
> more parsimonious.
>
> I can see some simplified constraints to force a type of mover-stayer
> model,
> but I cannot fathom the model you are trying to fit...
>
> Tom Eagle
>
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> Cc: S Tarfasa <gutamajale at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Limdep Nlogit List] Help to estimate equality constrained latent
> class model
>
> Dear All,
>
> Would anyone help me estimate equality constraint latent class model as I
> was challenged doing it?
>
> I have 9 classes where some respondents ignored one attribute,others all
> attributes and the remaining ignored none.I keep getting error when I run
> the following syntxa butI couldn't figure it out.
> Any help is highly appreciated.
>
> Error   451: Expected  27 specifications in RST/CML list. Found  72.
>   Error  1071: Found an error in your ;RST setup. Please check.
>   Error  1071: Found an error in your ;RST setup. Please check.
> Best,
>
>
>
>
> LCLOGIT
> ;LHS=CHOICE
> ;CHOICES=1,2,3
> ;MODEL:
> U(1,2,3)=BPAY*PAYMENT+BCOV*COVER2+BCEM*CEME+BLAB*LABOR+
> BCAP*CAP1000+BDUR*DUR
> ATION+BRGVT*RGVT+ASC
> ;PTS=9
> ;PDS=10
> ;rst=bpay,bcov,bcem,blab,bcap,bdur,brgvt,ASC,
>      bpay,bcov,bcem,blab,bcap,bdur,0,ASC,
>      bpay,bcov,bcem,blab,bcap,0,brgvt,ASC,
>     bpay,bcov,bcem,blab,0,bdur,brgvt,ASC,
>     bpay,bcov,bcem,0,bcap,bdur,brgvt,ASC,
>     bpay,bcov,0,blab,bcap,bdur,brgvt,ASC,
>     bpay,0,bcem,blab,bcap,bdur,brgvt,ASC,
>     0,bcov,bcem,blab,bcap,bdur,brgvt,ASC,
>     0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0$
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