Thanks Maarten.
2008/6/19, Maarten buis <[email protected]>:
> --- "Joao Ricardo F. Lima" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> mfx (marginal effects) are change in probabilities, when we are using
>> logit, mlogit ...
>>
>> margeff (partial effects) are change in probabilities too?
>
> -mfx- will give you the first derivative, that is, the slope at a
> choses value of x, while -margeff- will compare two points on the curve
> one unit apart around that value. So -margeff- will give a discrete
> approximation of the derivative.
>
> -- Maarten
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