DISCRETE-CHOICE LOGIT-MODELS - TESTING THE IIA PROPERTY

Authors
ZHANG JS HOFFMAN SD
Citation
Js. Zhang et Sd. Hoffman, DISCRETE-CHOICE LOGIT-MODELS - TESTING THE IIA PROPERTY, Sociological methods & research, 22(2), 1993, pp. 193-213
Citations number
29
Categorie Soggetti
Social Sciences, Mathematical Methods",Sociology
Journal title
Sociological methods & research → ACNP
ISSN journal
00491241
Volume
22
Issue
2
Year of publication
1993
Pages
193 - 213
Database
ISI
SICI code
0049-1241(1993)22:2<193:DL-TTI>2.0.ZU;2-H
Abstract
Multinomial logit discrete-choice models are now being used more frequ ently in sociological research, but often without appropriate attentio n to the central role played by the independence of irrelevant alterna tives (IIA) property. In this article, three tests of the IIA property am discussed and then how to apply them is illustrated, using a data set previously analyzed by Hoffman and Duncan. The IIA tests decisivel y reject the IIA property in the single/welfare/remarriage choice mode l.