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by bengal007
Tue Mar 27, 2012 3:20 am
Forum: Estimation
Topic: [Urgent]How to estimate marginal effects at means in Probit?
Replies: 11
Views: 18601

Re: [Urgent]How to estimate marginal effects at means in Pro

Glen, Thank you very much for your prompt reply! I have now obtained the results and can confirm that they are very much identical with the manual check against the normal distribution function after rescaling. While this is already done by EViews, what approach do you reckon is the best to manually...
by bengal007
Mon Mar 26, 2012 11:12 am
Forum: Estimation
Topic: [Urgent]How to estimate marginal effects at means in Probit?
Replies: 11
Views: 18601

[Urgent]How to estimate marginal effects at means in Probit?

Hello, I would appreciate some hands-on advice on the following. I am estimating impact of a number of factors on likelihood of school attendance (such as parent's education, household wealth etc). School attendance is a binary variable which =1 if child is currently attending for school, hence a Pr...
by bengal007
Tue Feb 14, 2012 10:03 am
Forum: Econometric Discussions
Topic: How to test for an independent distribution?
Replies: 3
Views: 4072

Re: How to test for an independent distribution?

Hello,

Thanks for your prompt answer. Grouping the variables and running a two-way frequency tabulation give me the result.
However, I was pretty certain I was a simple pen-and-paper approach to this. Please give me a shout if you can think of one.

Much obliged,
Dominik
by bengal007
Mon Feb 13, 2012 3:32 pm
Forum: Econometric Discussions
Topic: How to test for an independent distribution?
Replies: 3
Views: 4072

How to test for an independent distribution?

Hello All, I would appreciate some advice on the following simple problem. I have a survey of internet users and want to test for the Null that the distributions of occupations of respondents across countries are identical. To solve this, I have set proportions across countries and concluded that, i...

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