R help - Aug 2011 - constraining betas with mlogit package

I have been using the mlogit package but can't seem to figure out how to
make constraints on the beta coefficients.
For example, I would like to force that two of my beta's are equal to each
other.

Thanks in advance.

Jonah

I don't know the answer in general, but for the specific constraint of
two coefficients being the same, I would assume that you should create
a new covariate which is the sum of the two individual ones and fit
this single combined covariate instead of the two separate ones.

Cheers,
Bert

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Essers, Jonah
<Jonah.Essers at childrens.harvard.edu> wrote:
> I have been using the mlogit package but can't seem to figure out how
to make constraints on the beta coefficients.
> For example, I would like to force that two of my beta's are equal to
each other.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Jonah
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