Re: st: Marginal effects for panel data neg binomial (xtnbreg)

[Partha Deb <partha.deb@hunter.cuny.edu>]

What you want following your -xtnbreg- command is

mfx, predict(nu0)

The predict option allows you to choose non default options (ie., objects 
other than xb)

Hope this helps.

Partha


Corey Phelps wrote:

> I am trying to calculate marginal effects using the "mfx compute" command
> for a xtnbreg model. Because mfx computes marginal effects from the
> post-estimated linear predictions, the default dydx calculation returns the
> regresssion betas as marginal effects. However, I am interested in the
> marginal effect (exp^BX)Bj, evaluated at the sample means of the covariates.
> How do I go about obtaining this? 
> Corey Phelps
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