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by ChrisG
Fri Jan 31, 2025 8:10 pm
Forum: Support for Ngene Desktop (v1.x)
Topic: No initial random design found
Replies: 2
Views: 58029

Re: No initial random design found

Thank you so much for your explanation and helpful suggestion, that helped!
by ChrisG
Sat Jan 25, 2025 12:25 am
Forum: Support for Ngene Desktop (v1.x)
Topic: No initial random design found
Replies: 2
Views: 58029

No initial random design found

Hi, I wrote the following Ngene code for a DCE with two alternatives. However, Ngene fails to find an initial design and I don't understand why that is.
Can you help me?

Here is the code:

Design
;alts = alt1*, alt2*
;rows = 24
;block = 3
;eff = (mnl, d)
;rep = 500
;model:
U(alt1) = b1[0.9] * W[1 ...
by ChrisG
Tue Dec 12, 2023 12:45 am
Forum: Support for Ngene Desktop (v1.x)
Topic: No valid design has been found
Replies: 5
Views: 40410

Re: No valid design has been found

I understand, thank you for your explanation and suggestion!

Christian
by ChrisG
Fri Dec 08, 2023 11:01 pm
Forum: Support for Ngene Desktop (v1.x)
Topic: No valid design has been found
Replies: 5
Views: 40410

Re: No valid design has been found

You are overspecifying your model and it cannot be estimated, so the D-error becomes infinite. The issue is that you included interactions with both dummy[1] and dummy[2] into the model, but with dummy coding you can only use L-1 dummy variables, where L is the number of levels. So you should ...
by ChrisG
Wed Oct 04, 2023 5:46 pm
Forum: Support for Ngene Desktop (v1.x)
Topic: No valid design has been found
Replies: 5
Views: 40410

Re: No valid design has been found

Thank you so much, that helped!
by ChrisG
Tue Oct 03, 2023 7:31 pm
Forum: Support for Ngene Desktop (v1.x)
Topic: No valid design has been found
Replies: 5
Views: 40410

No valid design has been found

Hi everyone

I am trying to generate a new design for a DCE; please see the code below. The problem is that I get the warning "No valid design has been found after 1000 evaluations." I am recommended to check whether probabilities might be too extreme or priors too large. However, given the defined ...
by ChrisG
Tue Apr 25, 2023 9:07 pm
Forum: Support for Ngene Desktop (v1.x)
Topic: Undesired dominant alternatives in generated design
Replies: 2
Views: 11138

Re: Undesired dominant alternatives in generated design

Thank you Michiel, your answer was most helpful!
by ChrisG
Tue Apr 25, 2023 12:48 am
Forum: Support for Ngene Desktop (v1.x)
Topic: Undesired dominant alternatives in generated design
Replies: 2
Views: 11138

Undesired dominant alternatives in generated design

Hi everyone, I will be conducting a choice experiment on job preferences in order to estimate how much wage individuals are willing to forgo to enjoy job amenities. Therefore, it's a willingness-to-pay design with the wage parameter (b1 below) as WTP denominator. Most importantly, we also want to ...