Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Endogenous Switching Regression Models

Abstract

This article describes the movestay Stata command, which implements the maximum likelihood method to fit the endogenous switching regression model.

Keywords

st0071 movestay endogenous variables maximum likelihood limited dependent variables switching regression

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