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Hi there, I hope to build a model Y ~ X1 + X2 + X3 + X4 with X1 has two instrumental variable A and B, and X2 has one instrumental variable A. I have searched the R site and mailling list, and known that the tsls() from sem package and ivreg() from AER package can deal with instrumental variable regression, however, I don't know how to formula the model. Any suggestion will be really

Dear friends, I am trying to understand and implement instrumental variables regression using R. I found a small (simple) example here which purportedly illustrates the mechanics (using 2-stage least-squares): http://www.r-bloggers.com/a-simple-instrumental-variables-problem/ Basically, here are the R commands (reproducible example) from that site: # ------ begin R library(AER)

Hello, I am trying to replicate the "missing example" of a TSLS estimation in Epple & McCallum (link below) http://wpweb2.tepper.cmu.edu/facultyadmin/upload/ppaper_32774807225408_Epple-McCallum93.pdf According to them, the commands are in: http://www.tepper.cmu.edu/faculty-research/faculty-pages/dennis-epple/simultaneous-equation-econometrics/index.aspx They use the Stata's

Hi All, I am using R 2.11.0 on a Ubuntu machine. I estimated a model using "tsls" from the package "sem". Is there a way to get Newey West standard errors for the parameter estimates? When estimating the model by OLS, I used "NeweyWest" from the package "sandwich" to get HAC standard errors. But, I am not able to use the same method with the results of the

Dear all, I try to conduct a SEM / two stage least squares regression with the following equations: First: X ~ IV1 + IV2 * Y Second: Y ~ a + b X therein, IV1 and IV2 are the two instruments I would like to use. the structure I would like to maintain as the model is derived from economic theory. My problem here is that I have trouble solving the equations to get the reduced form so I can run

Dear all, Using the tsls package, I noticed that regression lists longer than 64 character are getting truncated. Looking at the original source, tsls.formula <- function(model, instruments, data, subset, weights, na.action, contrasts=NULL){ if (missing(na.action)) na.action <- options()$na.action m <- match.call(expand.dots = FALSE) if (is.matrix(eval(m$data,

Kelis, thanks for your interest. It's hard to say what exactly goes wrong based on the information you provide. However, I would recommend that you first process the data: - Store all variables as the appropriate types (numeric, factor, etc.) in the data frame. Then you don't have to put these things into the model formula. - Employ variable names without spaces, then you don't

Dear John Fox, Christian Kleiber, and Achim Zeileis, I am attempting to run various independent variable parameters to assess their suitability. Unfortunately, I hit a snag and couldn't get the tests to run properly. When I used ivreg, I got an error message saying: "Error in eval(predvars, data, env) : object 'WageInequality' not found." Can you please help? Model:

I am trying to download R.1.3 for Windows , and I have troubles with some of the .zip files. I am working with a laptop operating on Windows 98 and use Netscape 4.5 as a browser. I have downloaded without problems the following files: rw1030b1.zip rw1030ch.zip rw1030d1.zip rw1030d2.zip rw1030sp.zip rw1030w.zip but when I try to download rw1030b2.zip rw1030h.zip rw1030l.zip the

Hi,   I'm actually I’m performing a TSLS linear multiple regression on annually data which go from 1971 to 1997. After performing the TSLS regression, I tried to extract the R squared value using “output$r.squared” function and to perform autocorrelation (Durbin Watson and Breush Godfrey) and heterokedasticity tests (Breush-pagan and Goldfeld Quandt)  but I have errors messages. More

Hi, I am trying to obtain the heteroskedasticity consitent standard errors (HCSE) after apply 2SLS. I obtain 2SLS through tsls from package sem or systemfit: #### tsls #### library (sem) Reg2SLS <-tsls(LnP~Sc+Ag+Ag2+Var+R+D,~I2+Ag+Ag2+Var+R+D) summary (Reg2SLS) #### systemfit #### library (systemfit) RS <- LnP~Sc+Ag+Ag2+Var+R+D Inst <- ~I2+Ag+Ag2+Var+R+D labels

First I have to say I am sorry because I have not been so clear in my previous e-mails. I will try to explain clearer what it is my problem. I have the following model: lnP=Sc+Ag+Ag2+Var+R+D In this model the variable Sc is endogenous and the rest are all objective exogenous variables. I verified that Sc is endogenous through a standard Hausman test. To determine this I defined before a new

I want to estimate the following fixed effect model: y_i,t = alpha_i + beta_1 x1_t + beta_2 x2_i,tx2_i,t = gamma_i + gamma_1 x1_t + gamma_2 Z1_i + gamma_3 Z2_i I can use ivreg from AER to do the iv regression. fm <- ivreg(y_i,t ~ x1_t + x2_i,t | x1_t + Z1_i + Z2_i, data = DataSet) But, I'm not sure how can I add the fixed effects. Thanks! [[alternative HTML

Hi, I am using tsls function from sem package to estimate a model which includes large number of data. Among its predictors, it has a nominal data which has about 10 possible values. So I expand this parameter into 9-binary-value predictors with the coefficient of base value equals 0. I also have another continuous predictor. The problem is that, whenever I run the tsls, I will get 'System

Hello, I am looking for some help with this question: how could I test structural breaks in a instrumental variables´s model? For example, I was trying to do something with my model with three time series. tax_ivreg <- ivreg(l_y ~ l_x2 + l_x1+ dl_y | lag(l_x2, -1)+lag(l_x2, -2)+ lag(l_x1, -1)+lag(l_x1, -2)+lag(l_y, -1)+lag(l_y, -2), data=tax1) summary(tax_ivreg) ## after estimating it,

Hi! I am a new user for R. Recently I plan to write a program to estimate linear model with instrumental variables. I try to use Limit information maximum likelihood method and Jackknife instrumental variable method, but I do not know which R packages I need to use. Whether anybody may inform me the packages I need to download? Thanks a lot. Eric Wang [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hello, I am trying to simulate 10 relicates of 100-tables. Each table is a 2 x 3 and 80% pf the tables are true nulls and 20% are non-nulls. The nulls follow the Hardy Weinberg distribution (ratio) 1:2:1. I have the code below but the p-values are not what I am expecting. I want to use the Cochran Armitage trend test to get the p-values. num.reps=10 num.vars=1000 pi0 = 80 num.subjects = 100

I know this topic has had plenty of discussion in the last couple of days, but.... I've been trying to compare the effects of different fitted methods for systems of equations (OLS, SUR, 2SLS, 3SLS ) and would like to compare the residual plots (easy) and the qqnorm/qqplot of the fits for the different fitted methdos. For example, qqnorm( residuals( lm( q ~ p + f + a ) ) ) par( new = TRUE )

Hi List I want to carry out structural mode. Following Example l have taken from Basic Econometrics- Damodar Gujarati : Advertising intensity function: Ad/S = a0 + a1M + a2 (CD/S) + a3C + a4C2 + a5Gr + a6Dur – (1) Concentration function: C = b0 + b1 (Ad/S) + b2 (MES/S) -(2) Price-cost margin function: M = c0 + c1(K/S) + c2Gr + c3C + c4GD + c5(Ad/S) + c6 (MES/S)

Hello !   I’m trying to estimate a system of equation (demand and supply) using the systemfit package.  My program is:   library(systemfit) demand <- tsyud ~ tsyud1 + tsucp + tspo + tssn supply <- tscn ~ tsyn + tsqn + tsksn + tsucp system <- list(demand=eqdemand, learning = eqsupply) labels <- list(demand="eqdemand", learning="eqsupply") inst <- ~ tsupp1 + tsupp2