Hi there,
I am a very new user of Apollo and eventhough I have worked with R before I am still having some diffculties. For a project I have to estimate a binary choice model and then later perform different specifications to the model. One specification of my binary model is a log-transformation of my variables. So far so good. But then I have to estimate a model with a piecewise linearization to one of the log-transformed variables. With the model mlogit things are simple (look at file attached) but when I have to rewrite the code for apollo I have no clue how to proceed. I can't find any information on that topice so I am hoping for some help here.
Thank you very much
Irini
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Log-transformation with a piecewise linearization
Log-transformation with a piecewise linearization
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stephanehess
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Re: Log-transformation with a piecewise linearization
Hi Irini
a piecewise linear specification is not difficult to specify. I am happy to help you but it would probably be easiest if you wrote down your specification for me and I'll show you how to do it in Apollo. The mlogit code isn't really helping me as I don't use mlogit
Stephane
a piecewise linear specification is not difficult to specify. I am happy to help you but it would probably be easiest if you wrote down your specification for me and I'll show you how to do it in Apollo. The mlogit code isn't really helping me as I don't use mlogit
Stephane
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stephanehess
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Re: Log-transformation with a piecewise linearization
Hi Irini
a piecewise linear specification is not difficult to specify. I am happy to help you but it would probably be easiest if you wrote down your specification for me and I'll show you how to do it in Apollo. The mlogit code isn't really helping me as I don't use mlogit
Stephane
a piecewise linear specification is not difficult to specify. I am happy to help you but it would probably be easiest if you wrote down your specification for me and I'll show you how to do it in Apollo. The mlogit code isn't really helping me as I don't use mlogit
Stephane
Re: Log-transformation with a piecewise linearization
Hi Stephane,
I have to make a piecewise linearization of the age variable with the specification of splitting the age into four parts (0-15, 16-30; 31-45 and the 45 until the end). My discrete utility functions for the binary model are in the picture attached.
Is that all the information you need or am I missing something?
Kind Regards
Irini
I have to make a piecewise linearization of the age variable with the specification of splitting the age into four parts (0-15, 16-30; 31-45 and the 45 until the end). My discrete utility functions for the binary model are in the picture attached.
Is that all the information you need or am I missing something?
Kind Regards
Irini
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stephanehess
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Re: Log-transformation with a piecewise linearization
Hi
So what you could easily write is something like this (I've tried to keep it as simple for you as possible to follow, so haven't used if else, etc)
V[["stay"]] = beta1 * log(NbEmpl) +
beta2a * ((age<=15)*age+(age>15)*15) +
beta2b * ((age>15)*(age<=30)*(age-15)+(age>30)*15) +
beta2c * ((age>30)*(age<=45)*(age-30)+(age>45)*15) +
beta2d * ((age>45)*(age-45))
Stephane
So what you could easily write is something like this (I've tried to keep it as simple for you as possible to follow, so haven't used if else, etc)
V[["stay"]] = beta1 * log(NbEmpl) +
beta2a * ((age<=15)*age+(age>15)*15) +
beta2b * ((age>15)*(age<=30)*(age-15)+(age>30)*15) +
beta2c * ((age>30)*(age<=45)*(age-30)+(age>45)*15) +
beta2d * ((age>45)*(age-45))
Stephane