Bookmark and Share

Notice: On April 23, 2014, Statalist moved from an email list to a forum, based at statalist.org.


[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: st: Marginal Effects for Binary Response Models with Nonlinear Regressors


From   Maarten buis <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Marginal Effects for Binary Response Models with Nonlinear Regressors
Date   Sun, 30 May 2010 07:08:10 -0700 (PDT)

--- On Sun, 30/5/10, Olivia Bacha wrote:
> Consider the following model 'logit y x(i)/sum_x(i)', where
> variable x(i) is expenditure for individual i, then sum_x(i) 
> sum up total expenditures for all individuals, it is a ratio.
> As stata uses delta method, mfx command will give me x(i)/
> sum_x(i) + delta , not x(i)+delta/[sum_x(i)+delta]. It is a
> sort of same problem we face to calculate marginal effects
> by including interactions in logit model.

I am not sure whether the this is the same problem, if you added the
proportion, then that means that you think that the proportion is the
unit of interest, in which case I see no problem. However, if you 
disagree you can always compute the derivative by -nlcom- and let 
-nlcom- take care of the standard errors.

Hope this helps,
Maarten

--------------------------
Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany

http://www.maartenbuis.nl
--------------------------


      

*
*   For searches and help try:
*   http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search
*   http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
*   http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/


© Copyright 1996–2018 StataCorp LLC   |   Terms of use   |   Privacy   |   Contact us   |   Site index