[R-sig-ME] 4 binary DVs, subjects nested within schools

[John Maindonald]

Looking more carefully at your message and at what Chris has said, I doubt that 
mlogit's methods are appropriate.  I'd read "choice mode" as "choice model", 
maybe wrongly. 

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On 23/11/2011, at 5:21 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 7:57 PM, John Maindonald
> <john.maindonald at anu.edu.au> wrote:
>> NB also R's mlogit package, which has an accompanying vignette that includes
>> a number of worked examples, with R code.
>> Cheers
>> John Maindonald.
> 
> Dear John and Chris:
> 
> I need to make sure I understand your suggestion here. With 4 Yes or
> No options, subject is free to pick any combination. That leads to a
> multinomial model with 16 possible 4 tuples as outcomes:
> 
> (N,N,N,N)
> (N,N,N,Y)
> (N,N,Y,N)
> (N,N,Y,Y)
> (N,Y,N,N)
> ...and so forth
> (Y,Y,Y,Y)
> 
> I've never tried fitting a multinomial with more than a few different
> outcomes.  But I'm up for the challenge if that's what you are
> actually suggesting.
> 
> -- 
> Paul E. Johnson
> Professor, Political Science
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> University of Kansas
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