ApolloChoiceModelling forum

Jay

can you show us the output, please?

Thanks

Stephane

Hi I would in your case recommend option 1. Even when I treat income as a continuous variable in my models, I do not exclude people with missing data, nor do I assign them to another category. Rather, I estimate a different parameter for them, which would be in line with your idea to treat it as cat...

Hi I don't have any such example files, but like I said, this would all be accommodated by moving the apollo_panelProd call to be after apollo_lc. It's a very simply change for you to make For the class allocation model, you could then include covariates that vary across observations in the class al...

Paul

the order does not matter as they are indexed by name. So there must be another issue.

Did you compare the starting LL?

As an aside, I strongly suggesting using different starting values in the different classes

Stephane

yes, that's correct

Hi

there could be many reasons for this. Either there really is no effect (in which case that is a finding), or you don't have enough data, or a bad design. But this is a general question, not Apollo related

Stephane

Hi

you can either impute them, or estimate a separate effect for those people

Stephane

Hi

your unconditional distributions will not be different for people with different socio-demographics unless you have included the interactions in apollo_randCoeff. So subsetting the data will not do anything

Stephane

Hi the delta method in Apollo is for individual model parameters, not for distributed coefficients. In your case, you would need to use apollo_unconditionals to obtain the draws for the coefficients and calculate WTP moments that way, but you would not be able to use apollo_deltaMethod as you cannot...

Hi

it's not clear what you mean exactly. Do you want to interact this with covariates?

Stephane