[Limdep Nlogit List] WTp estimation

William Greene wgreene at stern.nyu.edu
Wed Jul 25 04:50:37 AEST 2018


That looks right to me.
/Bill Greene

On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 2:03 PM, Fredrik Carlsson <
fredrik.carlsson at economics.gu.se> wrote:

> You should most likely take away SD_pric from labels. I assume this was
> the label for the random price coefficient that is now fixed instead
>
> Fredrik
>
> Skickat från min iPhone
>
> > 24 juli 2018 kl. 19:56 skrev medard kakuru via Limdep <
> limdep at mailman.sydney.edu.au>:
> >
> > Dear Bill,
> > Precisely, this is what I am doing.
> >
> > WALD; Labels=colb,
> >            colw,
> >            colc,
> >            tast,
> >            tex,
> >            smel,
> >            siz,
> >            pric,
> >            SD_colb,
> >            SD_colw,
> >            SD_colc,
> >            SD_tast,
> >            SD_tex,
> >            SD_siz,
> >            SD_smel,
> >            SD_pric
> >            ;start=b
> >            ;Var=Varb
> >            ;Fn1=-1*(colb/pric)
> >            ;Fn2=-1*(colw/pric)
> >            ;Fn3=-1*(colc/pric)
> >            ;Fn4=-1*(tast/pric)
> >            ;Fn5=-1*(tex/pric)
> >            ;Fn6=-1*(siz/pric)
> >            ;Fn7=-1*(smel/pric)$
> >
> >
> > When I double click the B matrix, I see one column with 15 entries in it.
> > How am  I supposed to use the entries in the specification above, since I
> > have arleady specified b as starting values?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Medard
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 8:42 PM, William Greene via Limdep <
> > limdep at mailman.sydney.edu.au> wrote:
> >
> >> Medard.  Look at your output in the output window.  Then, double click
> B in
> >> the
> >> project window, and you will see what is contained in B in the right
> >> order.  When
> >> you use ;Start=B ; Var = Varb you can then use the right ;Labels =
> list...
> >> THEN
> >> set up your functions.
> >> /.B. Greene
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 12:34 PM, medard kakuru via Limdep <
> >> limdep at mailman.sydney.edu.au> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Thanks Bill.
> >>> However, I seem not to understand the matching and the submission you
> are
> >>> talking about. Kindly give me a reference in the nlogit manual so that
> I
> >>> read for more understanding.
> >>> Thanks.
> >>> Medard
> >>> On Tue, Jul 24, 2018, 19:03 William Greene via Limdep <
> >>> limdep at mailman.sydney.edu.au> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Yes you can.  After estimation, double click on the B matrix and see
> >> what
> >>>> is in there.
> >>>> Match it up against your output.  Then submit B and VARB as the
> >>> parameters
> >>>> and
> >>>> variance for the command.
> >>>> /B. Greene
> >>>>
> >>>> On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 11:52 AM, medard kakuru via Limdep <
> >>>> limdep at mailman.sydney.edu.au> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> So i can't estimate wtp using the Wald command if one of the
> >>> coeffecients
> >>>>> is nonrandom. I also get the same error message when I apply the wald
> >>>>> command after estimating a gmxl in utility space. Where could I be
> >>> going
> >>>>> wrong?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks in advance.
> >>>>> Medard
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Tue, Jul 24, 2018, 17:51 William Greene via Limdep <
> >>>>> limdep at mailman.sydney.edu.au> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> exactly right.  I agree
> >>>>>> Bill Greene
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 10:01 AM, Fredrik Carlsson <
> >>>>>> fredrik.carlsson at economics.gu.se> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> You have one less parameter, so reduce the number of parameters
> >> in
> >>>> the
> >>>>>>> labels part of the Wald-command
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Fredrik
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Skickat från min iPhone
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> 24 juli 2018 kl. 15:53 skrev medard kakuru via Limdep <
> >>>>>>> limdep at mailman.sydney.edu.au>:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Thanks Bill.
> >>>>>>>> I am facing another challenge. I use the wald command to
> >> estimate
> >>>> wtp
> >>>>>>> after
> >>>>>>>> estimating a mixed logit with all non-attribute coefficients
> >>> given
> >>>> a
> >>>>>>> normal
> >>>>>>>> distribution and the syntax works. Since the standard deviation
> >>> for
> >>>>> one
> >>>>>>>> attribute was not significant, I re-specify the model and make
> >>> that
> >>>>>>>> attribute non-random. Running the wald command after this
> >>>>> specification
> >>>>>>>> gives me an error message that "wrong number of start values -
> >>> need
> >>>>> one
> >>>>>>> for
> >>>>>>>> each label". What could be the problem?
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Thanks.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Medard
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 12:35 AM, William Greene via Limdep <
> >>>>>>>> limdep at mailman.sydney.edu.au> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Medard.  WTP for all variants of the RP logit model is
> >> described
> >>>> in
> >>>>>>>>> Chapter N29.  That would be good for the S-MNL and GMXL.  I'm
> >>>>>>>>> not sure what the G-MNL model is.  WTP is generally a ratio of
> >>>>>>>>> coefficients, though in RP models, the WTP is computed for
> >> each
> >>>>>>>>> individual.  P values for LR statistics are generally not
> >>>> computed.
> >>>>>>>>> I'm not sure what the P-value at 5% is.  You can use CALC to
> >>> look
> >>>>>>>>> up critical values for chi-squared if you wish.  The function
> >>>>>>>>> CTB(prob,df) returns the critical value for probability prob
> >>> with
> >>>>>>>>> degrees of freedom df.
> >>>>>>>>> Regards
> >>>>>>>>> /Bill Greene
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 5:22 AM, medard kakuru via Limdep <
> >>>>>>>>> limdep at mailman.sydney.edu.au> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> Dear All,
> >>>>>>>>>> Kindly help me with the syntax for wtp in preference space. I
> >>> am
> >>>>>>> running
> >>>>>>>>>> S-MNL, G-MNL and the GMXL models and want to compare WTP
> >>>> estimates
> >>>>>> for
> >>>>>>>>> the
> >>>>>>>>>> three models. I also want to compare these estimates with
> >> those
> >>>>>>> obtained
> >>>>>>>>>> from wtp-space model estimations. I understand that for a
> >>> simple
> >>>>> MXL
> >>>>>>>>> model,
> >>>>>>>>>> the syntax for wtp is just a ratio of attribute and cost
> >>>>>> coefficients.
> >>>>>>> Is
> >>>>>>>>>> it the case with the models I am estimating? I expected to
> >> find
> >>>> the
> >>>>>>>>> syntax
> >>>>>>>>>> in the Nlogit manual (section N33) but it's not listed.
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> Secondly, I have seen the syntax for carrying out a
> >>> loglikelihood
> >>>>>> ratio
> >>>>>>>>>> test and the syntax gives the LR statistic. How do i go
> >> further
> >>>> to
> >>>>>> get
> >>>>>>> a
> >>>>>>>>>> p-value (say at 5%) for the statistic?
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> Thanks in advance.
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> Regards, Medard
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