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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jan 13.
Published in final edited form as: Stata J. 2016 Mar 1;16(1):37–51. doi: 10.1177/1536867X1601600107

Table 2.

mvprobit and bvpmvp(…) Comparison: B^andBA^ Point Estimates, One Example (N=10,000, M=4, K=5; Estimated Standard Errors in Parentheses)

Outcome Covariate Mvprobit
(draws=20)
bvpmvp(…)
y1 x1 0.3265 (.0448) .3279 (.0446)
x2 −0.3301 (.0447) −.3314 (.0447)
x3 0.3184 (.0447) .3198 (.0449)
x4 −0.3902 (.0448) −.3916 (.0447)
Constant 0.3901 (.0466) .3909 (.0464)
y2 x1 −0.4487 (.0456) −.4487 (.0455)
x2 0.5624 (.0458) .5620 (.0456)
x3 −0.3998 (.0457) −.3977 (.0457)
x4 0.4000 (.0456) .3961 (.0457)
Constant −0.5086 (.0474) −.5079 (.0474)
y3 x1 0.3102 (.0445) .3151 (.0446)
x2 0.3846 (.0445) .3875 (.0449)
x3 −0.3188 (.0446) −.3206 (.0447)
x4 −0.3462 (.0446) −.3496 (.0447)
Constant 0.3230 (.0463) .3210 (.0463)
y4 x1 0.4567 (.0455) .4573 (.0457)
x2 −0.4438 (.0455) −.4408 (.0457)
x3 −0.4489 (.0456) −.4516 (.0457)
x4 0.4555 (.0456) .4499 (.0453)
Constant −0.4552 (.0472) −.4524 (.0472)