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"Kamilah khatib, LSE" <[log in to unmask]>
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Thank you Omar, 
the DV I specified in my email is not my precise dv (the first value that I have does represent  the actual choice, however the other options are missing). My Dv will look like 1, and zeros like you pointed out. The only reason I needed to fill the spaces was to be able to construct the other explanatory variables that will correspond to the zeros (available options)of the DV.
 
Many thanks for your help
 
Kamilah 

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From: Political Methodology Society on behalf of Omar Lizardo
Sent: Wed 20/09/2006 17:04
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Subject: Re: [POLMETH] stata help



Kamilah,In the conditional logit model, your dependent variable should be a binary variable that equals 1 when subject i chooses category j and zero otherwise, with each ij combination (id by number of choices) yielding a separate observation.  Thus, it is unclear to me why would you want to fill in the missing values with those other categories ("a" or "c", etc.).  Perhaps it would be more helpful if you would clarify which one of your variables represents the different choices.  If it is the variable "ref" (as I am guessing) then (using the first case as an example) then DV should be 1 if the choice was of ref was category one and zero otherwise.  If a=1, b=2, and c=3 in ref, then you date should look like:ID  DV REF1    1    11    0    21    0    3 2    0    12    1    22    0    33    1    13    0    2 3    0    34    0    14    0    24    1    3This can be done (when the data are in wide form) using the following commands:tab REF,g(DV)reshape long DV,i(ID) j(CHOICE)And now DV is the binary variable and CHOICE has the categories.The clogit estimation now involves interaction CHOICE with the ID specific variables:xi3:clogit DV i.CHOICE*X1 i.CHOICE*X2,group(ID)etc.Omar. > Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 13:45:54 +0100> From: [log in to unmask]> Subject: [POLMETH] stata help> To: [log in to unmask]> >  > Dear political methodologists, >  > I am a phd student at the LSE who seeks some (simple) help in STATA. >  > I used the reshape command because I need to run a conditional logit model (also called mixed logit, Mc Fadden conditional Model, Luce model...you name it)>  > the data I have now looks like this (where dv is my dep variable)> ID  DV  ref> 1     a    1> 1     .     2> 1     .     3 > 2     b    1> 2     .     2> 2     .     3> 3     a    1> 3      .    2 > 3      .    3> 4      c   1> 4      .    2> 4      .    3> .> .> .> What I want to do is to fill those missing data with a, b, or c (order does not matter) depending on the data available (i.e b, and c if I have a, a and b if I have c, a and c, if I have b). In other words make it look like the following:>  > ID  DV  > 1     a    > 1     "b"or "c"> 1     "c"      "b"> 2     b> 2     "a"or "c"> 2     "c"     "a"> 3     a> 3      "b" or "c"> 3      "c"      "b"> 4      c> 4      "a"or "b"> 4      "b"     "a"> .        .> .        .> .        .>  >  > thank you very much for your help!> Kamilah  > ----------------------------> Kamilah KHATIB> PhD candidate> Government Department > London School of Economics> WC2A 2AE>  > > **********************************************************>              Political Methodology E-Mail List>         Editor: Karen Long Jusko <[log in to unmask]>> **********************************************************>         Send messages to [log in to unmask]>   To join the list, cancel your subscription, or modify>            your subscription settings visit:> >           http://polmeth.wustl.edu/polmeth.php> > **********************************************************
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