limdep-nlogit使用说明.pdf

1 NLOGIT Basics I. A View of the Desktop When you start NLOGIT, your desktop will appear as follows: (The ‘command window’ below the row of buttons may not be present. To install it, click Tools:Options:View then click in the check box next to ‘Display Command Bar’ and finally, click OK. This setting is permanent until you change it.) Click here for the File:New menu HINT : Do not ever ‘close’ this window. You must have a project window open for the other functions of the program to operate. NLOGIT uses a standard Windows style statistical package, three window mode of operation. The first window you will see is called the ‘project’ window. A project consists of the data you are analyzing and the results of your computations, such as estimates of coefficients, other matrices you might have computed, and so on. As we’ll see shortly, this window contains an inventory of the things you have computed - that inventory will grow as you manipulate your data. The second main window that you will use is the ‘editing window.’ This will be the place where you put your instructions to NLOGIT As with any Windows program, NLOGIT makes use of many menus and dialog boxes. However, you will find at some point quite soon that the menus are too slow for what you wish to do, and you will switch to a command format in which you type out your instructions to get the program to do computations such as regressions. We’ll demonstrate shortly. Open an editing window by clicking File:New to