sorry for the confusion. I used y1,y2,.... instead of the real variable
names just for emailing purpose (to forward my question in a more clear
way). Tree, nothing...are the real variable names in my data set and i
actually used
Result<-myProbit(cbind(tree,nothing....)~x1+x2......,data=mydata)
On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 10:02 AM, PIKAL Petr <petr.pikal at precheza.cz>
wrote:
> Hi
>
>
>
> Keep your reply to rhelp list. Others can come with better/more
> appropriate solution.
>
>
>
> Pardon me, but you used
>
>
>
> Result<-mvProbit( cbind(y1,y2,y3,y4,y5) ~
x1+x2+x3+......+.x11,data=mydata)
>
>
>
> but in mydata there are variables tree and nothing (according what you did
> tell us).
>
>
>
> So I am rather confused.
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Petr
>
>
>
> *From:* Betty Betty [mailto:aleminesh57 at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 24, 2016 9:55 AM
> *To:* PIKAL Petr
> *Subject:* Re: [R] mvProbit error message
>
>
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> I find the following out put
>
> 1. If I import the data with read.spss(....use.value.lables=FALSE)
> str(mydata) shows me:
>
>
>
> $ tree : atomic 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 ...
>
> ..- attr(*, "value.labels")= Named num 1 0
>
> .. ..- attr(*, "names")= chr "TRUE"
"FALSE"
>
> $ nothing : atomic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 ...
>
> ..- attr(*, "value.labels")= Named num 1 0
>
> .. ..- attr(*, "names")= chr "TRUE"
"FALSE"
>
> .
>
> 2. If I import data with read.spss(....use.value.lables=TRUE)
> str(mydata)
>
> shows me:
>
>
>
>
>
> $ tree : Factor w/ 2 levels "FALSE","TRUE": 2
1 2 2 2 2 1 1 2 2
> ...
>
> $ nothing : Factor w/ 2 levels "FALSE","TRUE": 1
1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1
> ...
>
> regards
>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 3:53 PM, PIKAL Petr <petr.pikal at
precheza.cz>
> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> It shall work, I do not see any problem in the code. So you have to
> persuade us that you checked your data properly e.g. by posting result of
>
> str(mydata)
>
> Cheers
> Petr
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of
Betty
> > Betty
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2016 9:37 AM
> > To: r-help at r-project.org
> > Subject: [R] mvProbit error message
> >
> > Dear All,
> > I am running the mvProbit model to estimate five equation probit
> > models. In my data all the dependent variables are dichotomous with
> > values 0/1 and lables TRUE/FALSE. The explanatory variables are
> > composed of catagorical and countinous variables. I specified the
model
> > as follows
> >
> > Result<-mvProbit( cbind(y1,y2,y3,y4,y5) ~
> > x1+x2+x3+......+.x11,data=mydata)
> > summary(Result)
> >
> > However, i get an error message "...Error in
> > mvProbit(cbind(y1,y2,y3,y4,y5) ~:all dependent variables must be
either
> > 0,1,TRUE, or FALSE)
> >
> > I have checked all the dependent variables and it is coded 0/1 and
> > lables TRUE/FALSE.
> > Ofcourse there are two missing observation and I attempted to handle
> > that with na.action=na.omit but even that didnt solve the problem. My
> > second attempt was to tell r that the dichotomous dependent variables
> > and the catagorical independent variables as factor as follows
> >
> > mydata$y1<-factor(mydata$y1)
> > ...
> > ...
> > ..
> > .
> > mydata$x3<-factor(mydata$x3)
> > But still problem not solved. How would I solve this problem?
> > Thank you!
> >
>
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