Re: Changing base in MN logit, Thanks Allin. Your suggestion, as always, worked just fine. Maybe something for the "Cheat sheet"? Lars Lars Palsson Syll Professor of Civics Malmo University Sweden Send Gretl-users mailing list submissions to gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to gretl-users-request(a)lists.wfu.edu You can reach the person managing the list at gretl-users-owner(a)lists.wfu.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Gretl-users digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Gretl-users Digest, Vol 33, Issue 12 ( Lars P?lsson-Syll ) 2. Multinomial logit (wasRe: Gretl-users Digest, Vol 33, Issue 12) (Allin Cottrell) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:18:22 +0200 From: " Lars P?lsson-Syll " <Lars.Palsson-Syll(a)mah.se&gt; Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] Gretl-users Digest, Vol 33, Issue 12 To: <gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu&gt; Message-ID: <4AD259AE020000F00008215B(a)biggs.mah.se&gt; Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Hi, I wonder if there is a possibility, somehow, in gretl to choose which alternative should count as the base category when running a multinomial logit model. To me it seems as if gretl automatically always chooses the FIRST alternative. [In stata one has the command baseoutcome() to enable you to choose for yourself.] Best regards, Lars Lars Palsson Syll Professor of Civics Malmo University Sweden Send Gretl-users mailing list submissions to gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to gretl-users-request(a)lists.wfu.edu You can reach the person managing the list at gretl-users-owner(a)lists.wfu.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Gretl-users digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: descriptive labels (Shaianne Osterreich) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 16:55:57 -0400 From: Shaianne Osterreich <shaianneo(a)gmail.com&gt; Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] descriptive labels To: Gretl list <gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu&gt; Message-ID: <3b32039f0910081355n45882f7fqc0c351423b369685(a)mail.gmail.com&gt; Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi everyone. Thank you all for your helpful comments. I got Allin's trick to work. Here's a summary of what I did. 1. Open mydata store mydata --traditional 2. I had an excel file with the variables and labels in two columns. Save as a text file. Make sure that gretl has read the variables exactly the same way you have them in the file. (My data file/ and description file had extra 00s which gretl wisely dropped - but this made it seem like the variables were not the same). Open in Word and save as a text file again. This provides a more extensive format check to make sure the spaces are spaces (and not tabs) etc and hide the txt extension, adding .lbl. Save in the same user folder as the data file. 3. Open mydata.dat again. This time it opens with all the variables. So basically, Allin, it's what you said. I just had to be more careful with what the final text file actually looked like. Henrique - For future purposes I am still working on importing a script from a text file with an .inp extension. I got an error which read 'error in byte compatibility'. Not sure what that is about. I will try again. Thanks!! Shaianne On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 5:33 AM, yinung at Gmail <yinung.cycu(a)gmail.com&gt;wrote: