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by rahardiantot
22 Jun 2023, 14:33
Forum: Model specification
Topic: Error of Specification Issue - Parameter doesnt influence the log-likelihood of your model
Replies: 3
Views: 4376

Re: Error of Specification Issue - Parameter doesnt influence the log-likelihood of your model

Hi Prof. Hess,

Thank you for your recommendation, but i have question regarding to "fix the coefficient to zero for one utility". Which should I set to fix (zero)? Are there any considerations that I should pay attention to to determine this?

Best regards,
Rahardianto
by rahardiantot
17 Jun 2023, 12:05
Forum: Model specification
Topic: Error of Specification Issue - Parameter doesnt influence the log-likelihood of your model
Replies: 3
Views: 4376

Error of Specification Issue - Parameter doesnt influence the log-likelihood of your model

Dear developers, I want to use "Simple MNL model on mode choice SP data" to do estimation. Below is the code and I got following error: Testing influence of parameters............................. Error in apollo_estimate(apollo_beta, apollo_fixed, apollo_probabilities, : SPECIFICATION ISS...