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Hello, I am working on a Tobit Model for a consumer good, left censored with zero. Relation: Sales of product depend on price, promotion (dummy), Season(dummy) and store (dummy) Used standard Tobitmodel with package(AER) vor a 48 week period: tobitmodel<-tobit(SALE~Price+Promotion+Season+Store,data= datatobit) Now I want to predict the values for week 49-52. Used predict device:

I have an unbalanced panel of daily, county data that is naturally bounded at zero so my intention is to use a tobit. I'm using tobit from the AER package. There is cyclicality in the data for each pattern that I would like to control for before I add my variables of interest. I run the regression: derp <- tobit(x ~ factor(Month)*factor(County), data = data0, left = 0, right = Inf) If I

I am trying to work out a bootstrapped Tobit regression model. I get the coefficients all right, but they all have standard error zero. And I am unable to figure out why. I know the coefficients are correct because that's what I get when do a Tobit (without bootstrapping). Here's my code: # Bootstrap 95% CI for Tobit regression coefficients? library(boot) library(AER) # for the Affairs

Dear All: I need some guidance in calculating a goodness-of-fit statistic for a Tobit Regression model. To develop the Tobit regression, I used the tobit() method from the AER package, which is basically a simpler interface to the survreg() method. I've read about pseudo R2 and C-index and was wondering if there is a package that calculates this for me. Also, is there a reason to select

Hi, I'm trying to fit a tobit regression model to some data. When fitting the exact same data in Stata, I have no problems at all, however R won't converge. Its not a maxiters thing, since I've tried increasing this already. I need to be able to fit the model in R since there are users of the code that don't have a Stata license. The code is: require(AER) left = 3.218476 x =

Hello R-Users: I am want to use tobit regression for left censored panel/longitudinal data. Could you please provide me the name of "library" and/or "package" that will give me option of fitting tobit regression model for longitudinal data? Thank you. Sattar __________________________________________________ [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear everyone: I am a new user of R. I have a dataset with a dependent variable (DV) censored at different values. The dataset looks like, conditions .....IDV1 IDV2 DV 1 2 4 89 1 6 6 75 1 4 5 0 ( DV<=70) ...... 2 3 5 15 2 5 5 0

Dear useRs, upon request, the VGAM package (currently version 0.7-1) has been officially released on CRAN (the package has been at my website http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~yee/VGAM for a number of years now). VGAM implements a general framework for several classes of regression models using iteratively reweighted least squares (IRLS). The key ideas are Fisher scoring, generalized linear and

I need to give a quick description of Tobit Regression (TR), including how it differs from ordinary least squares (OLS). I am an ecologist who knows just enough about remote sensing and statistics to be dangerous in both. Now I have found myself doing a remote sensing project where I have used TR: survreg(Surv()). As far as I can tell, no form of Censored Regression has been used in analyzing

Hi, How can I recover the variance-covariance matrix of the tobit model from the variance-covariance of the survreg? I first used to the survreg function and then I selected the variance matrix. However, the last parameter is log(scale) and not the variance of the standard deviation of the censored distribution as in the Tobit model. tobit<- survreg(Surv(y, y > 0, type ='left')~

Folks, Based on http://www.biostat.wustl.edu/archives/html/s-news/1999-06/msg00125.html I thought I should experiment with using survreg() to estimate tobit models. I start by simulating a data frame with 100 observations from a tobit model > x1 <- runif(100) > x2 <- runif(100)*3 > ystar <- 2 + 3*x1 - 4*x2 + rnorm(100)*2 > y <- ystar > censored <- ystar <= 0

I'm statistician I need help with tobit regression Is there assumption in tobit regression ? if any, what kind of that ? please help me !!

Appreciate any suggestions regarding how to fit an unbalanced panel data to a Tobit model using R functions. I am trying to analyze how real estate capital expenditures (CapEx) are affected by market conditions using a panel Tobit model. The CapEx is either positive or 0, so it is censored. The data are unbalanced panel, including the CapEx of about 5000 properties over about 40 quarters, with the

Dear All, we (Ott Toomet and I) would like to add functions for maximum likelihood (ML) estimations of generalized tobit models of type 2 and type 5 (*see below) in my R package for microeconomic analysis "micEcon". So far we have called these functions "tobit2( )" and "tobit5( )". Are these classifications well known? How are these functions called in other

Hi, I am trying to model a score over time. This score shows a ceiling effect. I was willing to use a longitudinal tobit model, such as the one described by Twisk et al. (Twisk_Longitudinal tobit regression: A new approach to analyze outcome variables with floor or ceiling effects_JCE_2009) but it is programmed for STATA. Has anyone used such models in R? Any other idea? David Biau.

Dear Community, does anybody have an idea on how to estimate a system of three seemingly unrelated regressions, two of which being TOBIT and one OLS? Background: I am currently estimating a translog cost function and two corresponding cost share equations using systemfit and the seemingly unrelated regression ("SUR") specification. However, I consider it more appropriate to estimate

Hi all! Do you know if there is any R function/package that can be used to estimate "tobit" models with panel data (e.g. with random individual effects)? In economics, a "tobit" model is a model with a dependent variable that is left-censored at zero. Hence, it is a special case of a survival model and can be estimated using the "survival" package (see e.g.

I am using survreg from the survival package to run a left censored tobit model on “non-survival” data. I have to four questions that I hope someone can help me with: 1) Is there anything I should take into consideration when using frailty() to estimate random intercepts? 2) Is there anyway of extracting the estimated intercepts produced by survreg when using frailty()? 3) Can someone point

Please, I seek expertise and advice, possibly leads to R packages or stats literature. My data: measurements of economic variables for each county of California over 37 years. My dependent variable is square feet of office floor space permitted to be added in a county. Independent variables include for example change in number of office jobs in same county same year (and lagged years).

Hi there, I need to run a Tobit Fixed Effects in a panel data with 4500 units for 8 years. It is a huge data set, my dependent variable is left truncated at zero, the distribution is skewed and my panel is balanced. Any suggestions on how to do that in R? I tried stuff like survreg, censReg, and tobit but none of them were satisfactory. Thanks, *Felipe Nunes* CAPES/Fulbright Fellow PhD