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Re: st: dprobit coefficients greater than 1


From   May Boggess <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: dprobit coefficients greater than 1
Date   Thu, 06 Oct 2005 16:27:47 -0500

On Thursday afternoon Radu  wrote:

I'm interested in the marginal effects so I'm using
the -dprobit- command. And I'm puzzled because the coefficients on
some of my explanatory dummy variables are greater than 1. I thought
that the coefficients represent the change in probability associated
with moving from dummy = 0 to dummy = 1, so they couldn't possibly be
greater than 1.
A marginal effect for a continuous variable is a slope and so can
be greater than 1. Here is an FAQ on the topic that explains
the issue in detail:

 http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/stat/mfx_size.html

-- May

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