--- Pek-Hooi Soh <[email protected]> wrote:
> I estimated the full model by xtnbreg and ran mfx. The marginal
> effect table presents the same coefficients and standard errors as
> the table for xtnbreg. Is this possible?
Yes, if you type -help mfx- it tells you that: "By default, mfx
calculates the marginal effects or elasticities at the means of the
independent variables by using the default prediction option associated
with the previous estimation command." If you type
-help xtnbreg postestimation- it tells you that the linear predictor is
the default for -predict- after -xtnbreg-. This means that the marginal
effect -mfx- computes is just the same as the output of -xtnbreg-.
If you want to interpret incidence rate ratios you don't have to use
-mfx-, you can just use -xtnbreg- with the -irr- option. See:
-help xtnbreg-.
> If I do get the correct mfx output, how do I compute predicted Y? Do
> I have compute y = exp(XB) where B stores marginal effects separately
> in excel ?
See -help xtnbreg postestimation- and look at the -predict- section.
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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