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Re: st: RE: re: problem using predictnl after obtaining non-linear estimates


From   Maarten buis <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: RE: re: problem using predictnl after obtaining non-linear estimates
Date   Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:54:50 +0000 (GMT)

--- Lopa Chakraborti <[email protected]> wrote:
> I tried using nlcom without using any of the Xs and it seems to
> generate only a constant. It seems that only the point estimates of
> the parameters are being used and not the variance covariance matrix.
> nlcom (bod1 : ($K2/($K1-$K2))*exp(-$K1)*(exp(-$K2)-exp(-$K1)))
> 
>         bod1: 
>
(.0014539294546791/(.0009593881362685-.0014539294546791))*exp(-.0009593881
> > 362685)*(exp(-.0014539294546791)-exp(-.0009593881362685))

While it is legal syntax to use global or local macros, and apparently
-nl- stores the coefficients in the global macro you have used, these
macros just contain the numbers without any reference to the model or
the variance covariance matrix. If you want to combine parameter
estimates you will have to refer to the parameters as:
[equation name]_b[variable name]. -nl- can be a bit weird in how it
stores the coefficients, and I would not be surprised if that has
changed since Stata 8. The easiest way to find out how to refer to the
parameters is to type -matrix list e(b)-

If you get something like:

e(b)[1,2]
           mpg       _cons
y1  -238.89435   11253.061

you can refer to the parameters as _b[mpg] and _b[_cons]

If you get something like:

e(b)[1,4]
             4:          4:          5:          5:
         price       _cons       price       _cons
y1   -.0000205  -.67229653   -.0000414  -1.0395561

You can refer to them as [4]_b[price] and [5]_b[price]

Hope this helps,
Maarten

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Department of Social Research Methodology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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