Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: A. Colin Cameron
Author-Name-First: A. Colin
Author-Name-Last: Cameron
Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Economics, University of California Davis
Title: Categorical Data
Abstract: A very brief survey of regression for categorical data. Categorical outcome (or discrete outcome or qualitative response) regression models are models for a discrete dependent variable recording in which of two or more categories an outcome of interest lies. For binary data (two categories) probit and logit models or semiparametric methods are used. For multinomial data (more than two categories) that are unordered, common models are multinomial and conditional logit, nested logit, multinomial probit, and random parameters logit. The last two models are estimated using simulation or Bayesian methods. For ordered data, standard multinomial models are ordered logit and probit, or count models are used if ordered discrete data are actually a count.
Length: 8
File-URL: https://repec.dss.ucdavis.edu/files/2Ppp9b8HGmWk6fuU2ukKwkUt/06-12.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
Number: 187
Classification-JEL: C21, C25
KeyWords: binary data, multinomial, logit, probit, count data
Creation-Date: 20060301
Handle: RePEc:cda:wpaper:187