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From: "sujata panday" <sujatagp@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: ordered probit model
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:38:02 +0000 (UTC)
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It appears that matlab mnrfit function automatically omits 
the constant term when ordinal data is chosen. 

"sujata panday" <sujatagp@gmail.com> wrote in message 
<g38gkd$e7e$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> Hi,
> 
> I want to estimate an ordered probit model in matlab. I 
> have three categories so the dependent variable is not 
> simply binary. I think the function mnrfit is the right 
one 
> for it. But I do not want it to include an intercept term 
> which it automatically does. The glmfit function allows 
one 
> to disable the constant term. Is it possible to do 
> something like this too for the mnrfit function?
> 
> Or are there other functions within Matlab that i can use 
> to estimate an ordered probit model.
> 
> Regards
> Sujata