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Section 7   Appendices: Replication Notes

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**Section 1   Introduction
**14 models in Fordham and Walker's (2005) ISQ article
**Stata is applied

  • Open "Replication_fwisq.txt" in the "Replication_fwisq" directory.
  • Run all the commands in "Replication_fwisq.txt".

**Section 2.1 Boundary Violations
**Hypothetical Cases of Boundary Violations
**Matlab is applied

  • Use the "Hypocase" directory.
  • Run "ofb.m" in the Matlab environment.

**List of Hypothetical Cases

  • Use the "Hypocase" directory.
  • Open "List of Hypocases.xlsx".

**Section 2.3 Model Specification
**Maximual and Minimal Values of Dummy Variables
**Matlab is applied

  • Use the "Hypocase" directory.
  • Run "dummyvalue.m" in the Matlab environment.

**List of Maximual and Minimal Values of Dummy Variables

  • Use the "Hypocase" directory.
  • Open "List of Dummycases.xlsx".

**Section 4   Applying Constrained Optimization to the Panel Regression
**Model I-V in Table 1-3
**Table 1 is executed in Stata
**Table 2 is executed in Matlab
**Table 3 is executed in Matlab

**Model 1

  • Use the "Xtreg" directory.
  • Run all the commands in "replication_Hansford_Gomez.txt".
  • Run "xtregbv.m" in the Matlab environment.

**Model 2

  • Use the "Fixmin" directory.
  • Run all the commands in "stata_fixmin.txt".
  • Run "fixminreg.m" in the Matlab environment.

**Model 3

  • Use the "LS1" directory.
  • Run "LSxtreg.m" in the Matlab environment.

**Model 4

  • Use the "ML1" directory.
  • Run "ML1xtreg.m" in the Matlab environment.

**Model 5

  • Use the "ML2" directory.
  • Run "ML2xtreg.m" in the Matlab environment.

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