Re: st: RE: -prgen- with a quadratic function

[Nick Winter <nw53@cornell.edu>]

To clarify my earlier post:

My -oprobpr-, although designed for ordered logit/probit, can handle this, 
because ordered logit is a more general case of logit.  After installing 
-oprobpr- from SSC, you would do something like this:

 . ologit dv age agesq x1 x2 x3

 . oprobpr age , levels(agesq=age^2) cat(2)

The -ologit- model estimated will be the same as the equivalent logit model 
(except that it will estimate a single cut point instead of a 
constant).  The -oprobpr- command then plots predicted probabilities for 
catgories of the DV versus age, recreating agesq as it does so, and holding 
the other IVs constant at their means.  The cat(2) option indicated that 
only category 2 (i.e., dv==1) be plotted.

-oprobpr- also gives substantial control over levels of the other IVs, 
range of the IV to plot against, and more.

--Nick Winter


At 10:03 PM 3/15/2005 +0000, you wrote:

> I don't think Scott Long is a member of Statalist.
>
> No matter: your problem should yield to -adjust-
> followed by an appropriate graph.
>
> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>
> Mariano Sana
>
> > Hi Statalisters.  Someone experienced with ?prgen- might be
> > able to answer this.
> >
> > I ran a logit model that has, among its predictor variables,
> > AGE and AGESQ.
> > The coefficient for AGE is positive and the coefficient for AGESQ is
> > negative.  The turning point is at age 79 or so.  I?ve been trying to
> > generate a graph that shows how predicted probabilities vary
> > by age for a few groups in my analysis.  I used the ?prgen- command from
> > the Spostado package.
> >
> > The graph that I get doesn?t make sense. The probability
> > increases nonstop
> > and becomes asymptotic to 1 at age 90 or so.
> >
> > I realize that the problem is that ?prgen- cannot vary the
> > value of AGESQ
> > as the value of AGE varies.  The default for AGESQ is the
> > mean of AGESQ,
> > unless I specify another value.  Obviously, I need AGESQ to
> > be the square of AGE as AGE varies.
> >
> > By now I think I have no other solution than running
> > ?prvalue- (also from
> > the Spostado package) multiple times to get the probabilities
> > I need for
> > the graph. Or is there any other way? Is this a question for
> > Scott Long?
>
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