Sabre

ESSAYS [essays2.dat]
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Univariate binary probit model
990 observations, 198 cases, 11+1 (fixed+random) parameters

SABRE: 12-point quadrature
STATA: xtprobit, 12-point non-adaptive quadrature
GLLAMM: 12-point non-adaptive quadrature
IGLS: 2nd order PQL
MCMC: default settings (Gamma priors), 25000 iterations

         SABRE           STATA          GLLAMM            IGLS            MCMC
grader2 -1.208 (0.166)  as SABRE        as SABRE        -1.252 (0.160)  -1.241 (0.167)
grader3 -0.713 (0.159)                                  -0.739 (0.157)  -0.735 (0.160)
grader4 -0.837 (0.161)                                  -0.865 (0.157)  -0.862 (0.163)
grader5 -1.503 (0.171)                                  -1.554 (0.165)  -1.543 (0.173)
wordlen  1.025 (0.235)                                   1.068 (0.234)   1.026 (0.208)
sqrtwrd  0.291 (0.032)                                   0.301 (0.031)   0.297 (0.032)
commas   0.073 (0.033)                                   0.075 (0.032)   0.074 (0.034)
errors  -0.147 (0.039)                                  -0.152 (0.039)  -0.151 (0.041)
prepos   0.059 (0.024)                                   0.061 (0.024)   0.062 (0.025)
sentlen  0.000 (0.013)                                   0.000 (0.013)  -0.002 (0.013)
const   -6.806 (1.124)                                  -7.060 (1.116)  -6.833 (0.963)
sigma    0.715 (0.089)                                   0.707 (0.070)   0.774 (0.094)

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