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Procedure for Estimation of Variance Inflation Factors

Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2014 4:55 am
by Petros
Can anybody suggest a particular command code or procedure which I can use to estimate Variance Inflation Factors for several linear regression models that I have estimated?

Many thanks,
Petros

Re: Procedure for Estimation of Variance Inflation Factors

Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2014 8:24 am
by TomDoan
See

https://estima.com/textbooks/greene_7/grnp090.rpf

With version 9, you can use Help-Find in Files and look for "Variance Inflation" to find this.

Re: Procedure for Estimation of Variance Inflation Factors

Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2014 12:12 am
by Petros
Tom thank you for this. I had seen this before but it does not seem to be a generic code that I can apply to any regression. I am surprised that RATS does not have a simpler code for detecting multi-colinearity in a simple linear regression model.

Many thanks,
Petros

Re: Procedure for Estimation of Variance Inflation Factors

Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2014 9:22 am
by TomDoan
"Multicollinearity" was a serious problem about 40 years ago when most statistical software worked in single precision. It faded as an issue with double precision floating point calculations and improved inversion/factoring algorithms. Newer textbooks generally don't even mention "near" collinearity---only exact collinearity (such as the dummy variable trap). Big sections on multicollinearity usually only exist in textbooks which were originally written in the 1970's and 1980's.