st: Predicted events with -xtnbreg- and -xtpoisson-

[Dendy Macaulay <dendym@gmail.com>]

I am using I am using Stata/IC 10.1 for Windows to try to predict the
number of events from a negative binomial regression with panel data.
Specifically, I am running -xtnbreg- with random effects.  In the
prediction, I do not want to assume the random effects are zero.

The command I am using is the following:

xtnbreg visits intervention study age, re level(95)
predict phat, xb

Do I need to exponentiate phat to get the predicted number of events?
replace phat = exp(phat)


I also want to predict the number of events from a Poisson count
model.  Specifically, I am running -xtpoisson- with random effects
with the same panel data.

The command is the following:
xtpoisson days_stayed intervention study age, re level(95)
predict phat, xb
replace phat = exp(phat)

With -xtpoisson- it seems to require exponentiation to get the
predicted number of events.  Could you please confirm this is correct?

Thank you so much!
Dendy Macaulay

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