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observability  From   "Deller, David R D" <> To   "" <> Subject
 st: Problems re biprobit partial observability Date   Thu, 26
Jul 2012 12:17:01 +0000  Dear statalist,  I am currently using a
short and highly unbalanced panel data set to estimate a model
of individuals committing property crime. Having run basic logit
and probit regressions successfully I'm now considering more
sophisticated ways to analyse the data. One is to try to control
for the notion that some individuals may never commit crime
under any circumstances. Hence I split my variables into two:
one set of variables fixed through time to explain whether an
individual is a criminal/non-criminal type and another set of
time varying variables to explain whether criminal types commit
a crime in a given time period. Given that all we ever observe
is whether a crime gets committed in a given time period this
structure would seem to suit a biprobit model with partial
observability in the spirit o