RE: st: wish for logit output

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 01:04 PM 2/4/2007, Newson, Roger B wrote:
> The way to get the exponentiated constant coefficient with -logit- is to
> define explicitly the X-variable of ones corresponding to the intercept,
> and then to include this variable explicitly in the model, using the
> -noconst- option. As in:
>
> sysuse auto, clear
> gene byte baseline=1
> logit foreign baseline trunk, or noconst
>
> This will display the baseline odds of non-US origin for cars with zero
> trunk space, as well as the odds ratio of non-US origin per cubic foot
> of trunk space. This trick is equally useful for defining confidence
> intervals for geometric means and their ratios. See Newson (2003), which
> can also be purchased together with 32 other useful Stata tips in
> Newton and Cox (2006).
Nice tip.  That does zap the LR Chi Square and Pseudo R^2 stats.  To 
get everything, you could run the command twice, once with the 
nonconst option and once without it.


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