--- On Wed, 24/6/09, Garry Anderson wrote:
> Below you mention
> "while -glm- will give the percentage change in the
> arithmatic mean of y for a unit change in x. "
>
> I was wondering if you could give an example please
> of the -glm- command that would give the percentage
> change in the arithmatic mean of y for a unit change
> in x.
So building on Roger's example in (Newson 2003), you
can see that the geometric mean price of a domestic
car is 5533 dollars while the arthmatic mean is
6072 dollars. The geometric mean of foreign cars
is 7.7% larger than domestic cars while the arithmatic
mean of foreign cars is 5.1% larger.
*--------- begin example ----------
sysuse auto, clear
generate logprice = log(price)
generate byte baseline = 1
regress logprice foreign , ///
eform(GM/Ratio) robust
est store geometric
glm price foreign , ///
eform robust link(log)
est store arithmatic
est table geometric arithmatic, ///
eform eq(1)
*---------- end example -----------
Hope this helps,
Maarten
Roger Newson (2003) Stata tip 1: The eform() option
of regress. The Stata Journal, 3(4): 445.
http://www.stata-journal.com/article.html?article=st0054
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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