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st: RE: re: logistic function


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: re: logistic function
Date   Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:49:21 +0100

I agree, naturally. But my only point is that for anyone who is thinking
"I need to invert the logistic", it is one natural Stata answer. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Kit Baum

Nick pointed out invlogit(), which does not appear in the function  
list of density functions, but of math functions. Quite so, but it  
doesn't save much typing:

local cum1  1/(1+exp(-((_b[_cons]+ _b[trunk]*mut + _b[mpg]*mum +  
_b[d]*1) - mu)/s))

scalar onea = invlogit((_b[_cons]+ _b[trunk]*mut + _b[mpg]*mum +  
_b[d]*1 - mu)/s)

will indeed generate the same values, but you still have to compute mu  
and s and include them in the function argument.


In my prior example I had the line

gen d = (runiform()>0.7)

which did not appear in the posting.

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