Dear Statalisters,
try this in Stata:
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sysuse auto, clear
probit foreign weight, nolog
estat clas
probit foreign weight mpg, nolog
estat clas
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Then tell me: can I prefer one specification of covariates in a probit model
over the other on the basis of the correctly classified cases as provided at
the bottom of the classification table? If so, is there a confidence
interval that would let me judge whether the difference between two models
is significant? And what is the difference to
a) the area under the ROC curve, as provided by the -lroc- command ( and
where I do know that you can test two models against each other based on the
-roccomp- command)
b) the gofs provided by the -estat gof- command?
We recently heard a presentation at our workshop where someone argued in
this vein, and all I could come with was this lousy "I have a bad feeling
about this".
Thanxx,
Martin Weiss
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