Re: [R] Comparing Negative Binomial Regression in Stata and R. Constants differ?

2003-12-04 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Paul E. Johnson wrote: I looked for examples of count data that might interest the students and found this project about dropout rates in Los Angeles High Schools. It is discussed in the UCLA stats help pages for the Stata users:

Re: [R] Comparing Negative Binomial Regression in Stata and R. Constants differ?

2003-12-04 Thread Martin Maechler
Without going into details, did you remember that the intercept depends very much on the **contrasts** you use (for your factors)? Regards, Martin __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help

Re: [R] Comparing Negative Binomial Regression in Stata and R. Constants differ?

2003-12-04 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Peter Dalgaard wrote: Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: report. In the Stata output, they report alpha, same as 1/theta from the R glm.nb output. Except for minor differences in standard errors, only the intercept estimates markedly differ. What are

[R] Comparing Negative Binomial Regression in Stata and R. Constants differ?

2003-12-04 Thread Paul E. Johnson
I looked for examples of count data that might interest the students and found this project about dropout rates in Los Angeles High Schools. It is discussed in the UCLA stats help pages for the Stata users: http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/library/count.htm and See: