Re: st: AW: nlcom

[Olivia Bacha <oliviabacha@gmail.com>]

Martin,

Stata is showing syntax error.

Variable  I want to compute marginal effects is a proportion of
expenditures (candidate i expenditure / sum of expenditures of all
candidates), I want to know the effects in probability of win an
election given changes in candidate spending in campaign,  as well as
given changes in some challenger spending.


Thank you very much for your help.

Olivia

2010/6/14 Martin Weiss <martin.weiss1@gmx.de>:
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> Marginal effects are best estimated using -margins-. What is your reason for
> not using it?
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> What is the error description (the code number is not that informative)?
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> If you want -quietly- and the -r(mean)- returned value, you can also use the
> -meanonly- option of -summ-.
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> HTH
> Martin
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> Gesendet: Montag, 14. Juni 2010 06:15
> An: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Betreff: st: nlcom
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> Dear all,
>
> I am running the following code after logit estimation using nlcom,
> this is to estimate marginal effects.
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> quietly sum gastos
> local gastosM= r(mean)
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> quietly sum var60
> local var60M= r(mean)
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> quietly sum gastopc
> local gastopcM= r(mean)
>
> quietly sum gastopcreeleição
> local gastopcreeleiçãoM=r(mean)
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> quietly sum Idade
> local IdadeM=r(mean)
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> quietly sum qualidade
> local qualidadeM=r(mean)
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> quietly sum qtpart
> local qtpartM=r(mean)
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> quietly sum educ
> local educM=r(mean)
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> local xb1 _b[prop_gasto]*(`gastosM'/`var60M') + _b[gastopc]*`gastopcM'
> + _b[reeleição] + _b[gastopcreeleição]*`gastopcreeleiçãoM' +
> _b[Idade]*`IdadeM' + _b[qualidade]*`qualidadeM' + _b[qtpart]*`qtpartM'
> + _b[educ]*`educM'
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> local xb0 _b[prop_gasto]*(`gastosM'/`var60M') + _b[gastopc]*`gastopcM'
> + _b[Idade]*`IdadeM' + _b[qualidade]*`qualidadeM' +
> _b[qtpart]*`qtpartM' + _b[educ]*`educM'
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> nlcom (a1:(1/(1+ exp(`xb1')))^2) (a2:(`var60M' - `gastosM')/`var60M'^2),
> post
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> nlcom _b[a1] * _b[prop_gasto] * _b[a2]
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> nlcom (-1) * ((1/(1+ exp(`xb0'))) ^2) * _b[prop_gasto] * (`var60M' -
> `gastosM')/`var60M'^2
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>  nlcom ((1/(1+ exp(xb1))) ^2) * _b[prop_gasto] * (1/`var60M')^2 * `gastosM'
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> Stata is returning error 198 when i start using nlcom. What's my mistake?
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> Thank you very much in advance.
>
> Regards,
>
> Olivia
>
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