Message-ID: <CAGxFJbRGPWZv3hhDiUV4cuzg5xHoihfb+FjaZ0cJCeMVx33ATw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2016-03-31T23:22:22Z
From: Bert Gunter
Subject: reduced set of alternatives in package mlogit
In-Reply-To: <GRUPR80MB04443F1875EAF793C2385609E2990@GRUPR80MB0444.lamprd80.prod.outlook.com>
code? example data? We can only guess based on your vague post.
"PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code."
Moreover, this sounds like a statistical question, not a question
about R programming, and so might be more appropriate for a
statistical list like stats.stackexchange.com .
Cheers,
Bert
Bert Gunter
"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along
and sticking things into it."
-- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )
On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 2:51 PM, Jose Marcos Ferraro
<jose.ferraro at logiteng.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to estimate a multinomial logit model but in some choices only alternatives from a subset of all possible alternatives can be chosen.
> At the moment I get around it by creating "dummy" variables to mean the alternative is not available and let it estimate this coefficient as highly negative. Is there a better way to do it?
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