Re: st: Interaction terms

[josephine gakii <jogakii@yahoo.com>]

Thanks Marteen and the rest for the replies to these thread.

yes i used the official Stata program -mprobit-. Because my error terms are correlated i settled on -mprobit- which has four categories in the dependent variable . 

i concur with Marteen that i have to use the delta method which gives the difference in the predicted probabilities. Unfortunately i am not conversant with the proposed -asmprobit-. could anyone please explain to me the -asmprobit-? 

again, does this imply i cannot use the delta method after running the -mprobit- command? i am also interested in understanding how the -predictnl- and -nlcom- commands work given that when i run my -mprobit- (assuming it is justified to use it) i get results in three categories (  the dependent variable has four categories); since the predictnl is on each variable, how can i extract the predictions of each variable in each of the three different categories of my dependent variable?

thanks
Josephine

--- On Mon, 4/4/11, josephine gakii wrote:
> I am using multinomial probit with an interaction term in
> it. I would like to compute standard errors for meaningful
> interpretation of my results that have an interaction
> term.  
> 
> I have tried using the -inteff- command in STATA but it
> seems to support only the binary logit and probit. i have
> also tried the CLARIFY command in STATA but it does not
> support multinomial probit 
> 
> Is there a command that can handle interaction terms in
> multinomial probit? 

I am assuming you used the official Stata program -mprobit-.
In that case there isn't much added value of using -mprobit-
over using -mlogit-, as the error terms are assumed to be
uncorrelated. If this does not worry you, than I would go
for -mlogit- and interpret the relative risk ratios as 
discussed in: 

M.L. Buis (2010) "Stata tip 87: Interpretation of interactions
in non-linear models", The Stata Journal, 10(2), pp. 305-308.

If you want to include correlated error terms, then you 
first need to think about identification, e.g. through 
alternative specific variables as implemented in -asmprobit-.
After that you'll probably need to compute the appropriate
marginal effects for the interaction terms manually using
either -nlcom- or -predictnl-. Those programs will than compute
the standard errors (using the delta method) for you.

Hope this helps,
Maarten

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Universitaet Tuebingen
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Germany

http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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