. di "racd5p3.do for Cameron and Trivedi RACD chapter 5" racd5p3.do for Cameron and Trivedi RACD chapter 5 . . . . ********** READ DATA . infile docno weeks numbids takeover bidprem insthold size leglrest /* > */ realrest finrest regulatn whtknght sizesq constant using racd5.asc (126 observations read) . . . ********** DATA TRANSFORMATIONS . . . ******** CHECK DATA: DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS . describe Contains data obs: 126 vars: 14 size: 7,560 (99.2% of memory free) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. docno float %9.0g 2. weeks float %9.0g 3. numbids float %9.0g 4. takeover float %9.0g 5. bidprem float %9.0g 6. insthold float %9.0g 7. size float %9.0g 8. leglrest float %9.0g 9. realrest float %9.0g 10. finrest float %9.0g 11. regulatn float %9.0g 12. whtknght float %9.0g 13. sizesq float %9.0g 14. constant float %9.0g ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sorted by: Note: dataset has changed since last saved . summarize Variable | Obs Mean Std. Dev. Min Max ---------+----------------------------------------------------- docno | 126 82174.41 2251.783 78001 85059 weeks | 126 11.44898 7.711424 2.857 41.429 numbids | 126 1.738095 1.432081 0 10 takeover | 126 1 0 1 1 bidprem | 126 1.346806 .189325 .942675 2.066366 insthold | 126 .2518175 .1856136 0 .904 size | 126 1.219031 3.096624 .017722 22.169 leglrest | 126 .4285714 .4968472 0 1 realrest | 126 .1825397 .3878308 0 1 finrest | 126 .1031746 .3054011 0 1 regulatn | 126 .2698413 .4456492 0 1 whtknght | 126 .5952381 .4928054 0 1 sizesq | 126 10.99902 59.91479 .000314 491.4646 constant | 126 1 0 1 1 . . *** POISSON REGRESSION . poisson numbids leglrest realrest finrest whtknght /* > */ bidprem insthold size sizesq regulatn Iteration 0: log likelihood = -184.9518 Iteration 1: log likelihood = -184.94833 Iteration 2: log likelihood = -184.94833 Poisson regression Number of obs = 126 LR chi2(9) = 33.25 Prob > chi2 = 0.0001 Log likelihood = -184.94833 Pseudo R2 = 0.0825 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ numbids | Coef. Std. Err. z P>|z| [95% Conf. Interval] ---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------- leglrest | .2601464 .1509594 1.723 0.085 -.0357286 .5560213 realrest | -.1956597 .1926309 -1.016 0.310 -.5732093 .1818899 finrest | .0740301 .2165219 0.342 0.732 -.3503452 .4984053 whtknght | .4813822 .1588698 3.030 0.002 .170003 .7927613 bidprem | -.6776958 .3767372 -1.799 0.072 -1.416087 .0606956 insthold | -.3619912 .4243292 -0.853 0.394 -1.193661 .4696788 size | .1785026 .0600221 2.974 0.003 .0608614 .2961438 sizesq | -.0075693 .0031217 -2.425 0.015 -.0136878 -.0014509 regulatn | -.0294392 .1605682 -0.183 0.855 -.344147 .2852686 _cons | .9860598 .5339201 1.847 0.065 -.0604044 2.032524 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ . * This gives ML standard errors which are incorrect . . ********** CLOSE OUTPUT . log close