LIMDEP

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LIMDEP
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LIMDEP 10 on Microsoft Windows
Original author(s) William H. Greene
Developer(s) Econometric Software, Inc.
Stable release
11 / September 7, 2016
Operating system Windows
Type statistical analysis econometric analysis
License proprietary software
Website www.limdep.com

LIMDEP is an econometric and statistical software package with a variety of estimation tools. In addition to the core econometric tools for analysis of cross sections and time series, LIMDEP supports methods for panel data analysis, frontier and efficiency estimation and discrete choice modeling. The package also provides a programming language to allow the user to specify, estimate and analyze models that are not contained in the built in menus of model forms.

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History

LIMDEP was first developed in the early 1980s. Econometric Software, Inc. was founded in 1985 by William H. Greene. The program was initially developed as an easy to use tobit estimator—hence the name, LIMited DEPendent variable models. [1] Econometric Software has continually expanded since the early 1980s and currently has locations in the United States and Australia.

The ongoing development of LIMDEP has been based partly on interaction and feedback from users and from the collaboration of many researchers. LIMDEP is used by researchers in universities, government institutions, and businesses.

LIMDEP has spun off a major suite of programs for the estimation of discrete choice models, NLOGIT, now a self standing superset of LIMDEP.

User interface

The main functionality of the program is accessed through a command line interface. Command streams are provided to the program via scripts or as text processed in a text editing format. It also includes a graphical user interface within which all program features can be accessed via menus or command generating dialog boxes. All GUI command generators produce transportable scripts that can be reused and modified in the command editor. [2]

Data input, formats and storage

Any number of data sets may be analyzed simultaneously. Data are input via standard ASCII formats such as CSV, DIF and rectangular ASCII, as well as XLS, Stata DTA (some versions) and binary. Data may be exported in CSV, rectangular ASCII and binary formats. The native save format (LPJ) has not changed since the release of the Windows version in 1997. All versions may exchange data sets. Data storage and all computations are always in double precision. Active data set size limitation is imposed by the available memory. [2]

List server

LIMDEP supports a list server based discussion group. [3] Anyone (users and interested nonusers) may subscribe to the list server. The list server is maintained at the University of Sydney.

Models

There are model formulations for linear and nonlinear regression, robust estimation, discrete choice (including binary choice, ordered choice and unordered multinomial choice), censoring and truncation, sample selection, loglinear models, survival analysis, quantile regression (linear and count), panel data, stochastic frontier and data envelopment analysis, count data, and time series. [1] [2]

Data Analysis

Analysis of a data set is done interactively in a set of windows. Program control may be from a pull down menu or in an unstructured session of instructions and manipulations. Estimation involves:

Resources

The PDF documentation set includes reference guides for the operation, background econometrics, and sample applications. [2]

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Hilbe, Joseph (2006). "A Review of LIMDEP 9.0 and NLOGIT 4.0". The American Statistician. 60 (2): 187–202. doi:10.1198/000313006x110492.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 McKenzie, Colin; Takaoka, Sumiko (2003). "2002: A LIMDEP Odyssey". Journal of Applied Econometrics. 18 (2): 241–247. doi:10.1002/jae.705.
  3. ↑ List Server
  4. ↑ Odeh, Oluwarotimi; Allen Featherstone; Jason Bergtold (2010). "Reliability of Statistical Software". American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 92 (5): 1472–1489. doi:10.1093/ajae/aaq068.
  5. ↑ McCullough, B.D. (1999). "Econometric software reliability: EViews, LIMDEP, SHAZAM and TSP". Journal of Applied Econometrics. 14 (2): 191–202. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1099-1255(199903/04)14:2<191::AID-JAE524>3.0.CO;2-K.

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