Thank you for your response. Each v can take a a value from 1 to 100. Input data subset: v1.data
v1 v2 v3 v4 v5 1 1 59 1 51 52 2 1 59 1 7 83 3 1 59 1 46 11 4 1 99 1 84 11 5 1 59 1 31 4 6 1 99 1 81 3 7 1 27 1 58 68 8 61 59 78 73 75 9 66 71 80 39 68 10 1 99 1 23 34 v1.data$v1 <- as.factor(v1.data$v1) mlogit.v1.data<-mlogit.data( v1.data, varying=NULL, choice="v1", shape="wide") v1.model<-mlogit(v1~1|v2+v3+v4+v5, data=mlogit.v1.data, reflevel="1") On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 1:38 PM, R. Michael Weylandt < michael.weyla...@gmail.com> wrote: > There's something in your data that makes the model computationally > singular when you take the various subsettings... Can you provide a > small reproducible example so we can help narrow it down? It looks > like you're using different data for each mlogit though so I'm not > sure how the comparison that v2 & v5 fail while the other works is > relevant though... > > Michael > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 4:03 PM, geek girl <geek.girl.o...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I am learning five mlogits as follows > > > > v1.model<-mlogit(v1~1|v2+v3+v4+v5, data=mlogit.v1.data, reflevel="1") > > v2.model<-mlogit(v2~1|v1+v3+v4+v5, data=mlogit.v2.data, reflevel="1") > > v3.model<-mlogit(v3~1|v1+v2+v4+v5, data=mlogit.v3.data, reflevel="1") > > v4.model<-mlogit(v4~1|v1+v2+v3+v5, data=mlogit.v4.data, reflevel="1") > > v5.model<-mlogit(v5~1|v1+v2+v3+v4, data=mlogit.v5.data, reflevel="1") > > > > v2 and v5 give me the error below during learning, the other 3 models > work > > fine > > > > "Error in solve.default(H, g[!fixed]) : system is computationally > singular: > > reciprocal condition number = 1.12239e-16" > > > > What does this error mean? > > > > Thanks > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.