Re: st: How to compute SE for linear or nonlinear combination of params?

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@nd.edu>]

At 10:19 AM 10/22/2004 -0400, you wrote:
> Frank Zhang wrote:
>
> > Dear Statalisters,
> > If I estimated a regression equation like this,
> > y=b0hat+b1hat*x1
> > If I want to get the standard error of (-b0hat/b1hat),
> > how can I do it?
> > It seems easy in TSP and LIMDEP, but I don't know how
> > to get it with STATA? Your help is highly appreciated.
> It is easy in Stata, too. See testnl.
> Dave Harless.
Not sure, but since he wants the s.e. I think he wants

nlcom (_b[_cons]/_b[x1])


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