options double crt; name hedo1 'Hedonic data - 1-way ML estimates'; ? Source: Harrison and Rubinfeld (1978). See also ? Belsley, Kuh and Welsch (1980). ? Description: Cross-Section, 506 Census tracts in the Boston area in 1970. ? Variables: doc MV 'Medium value of owner-occupied homes'; doc CRIM 'Crime rate'; doc ZN 'Proportion of 25,000 square feet residential lots'; doc INDUS 'Proportion of nonretail business acres'; doc CHAS 'dummy variable which is 1 if the tract bounds the Charles River'; doc NOX 'Annual average nitrogen oxide concentration in parts per hundred million'; doc RM 'Average number of rooms'; doc AGE 'Proportion of owner units built prior to 1940'; doc DIS 'Weighted distances to five employment centers in the Boston area'; doc RAD 'Index of accessibility to radial highways'; doc TAX 'Full value property tax rate ($/$10,000)'; doc PTRATIO 'Pupil / teacher ratio'; doc B 'Proportion of blacks in the population'; doc LSTAT 'Proportion of population that is lower status'; doc TOWNID 'Town identifier'; list vars MV CRIM ZN INDUS CHAS NOX RM AGE DIS RAD TAX PTRATIO B LSTAT TOWNID; set n=92; set nt=506; smpl 1,nt; read(file='hedonic.txt') vars; freq(panel,id=TOWNID); ? rescale variables to match Baltagi table 9.1 CRIM = CRIM/100; ZN = ZN /1000; INDUS = INDUS/100; CHAS = CHAS/10 ; NOX = NOX /100; RM = RM /100; AGE = AGE /1000; DIS = DIS /10 ; RAD = RAD /10 ; TAX = TAX /1000; PTRATIO = PTRATIO/100; LSTAT = LSTAT/10 ; title 'one-way ML: Baltagi(2001) p.168'; list yx MV CRIM ZN INDUS CHAS NOX RM AGE DIS RAD TAX PTRATIO B LSTAT; panel(rei,tol=1e-7) yx; ? Note: s2v = S2_IT , s2mu = S2_I