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From | Richard Williams <richardwilliams.ndu@gmail.com> |
To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
Subject | st: Wish List for margins |
Date | Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:11:28 -0500 |
* I'd like a -discrete- option that would tell margins to treat a 0/1 dichotomy as a dichotomy. This would make margins more useful with older user-written commands (like mine) that do not currently support the use of factor variables.
* Perhaps the syntax would be tricky, but I am a little surprised there isn't a generate option. The old adjust command has one. You might want to see, say, what the predicted probability for a case is given the values you have fixed using the -at- option.
* As far as I can tell, marginal effects after multiple-outcome commands are still clunky to generate. You have to give a separate margins command for each outcome. I wish margins acted like the user-written mfx2 and margeff commands, generating all the marginal effects for every outcome with a single command.
* Like I've said before, I wish the old adjust and mfx commands had been updated for Stata 11. One thing they would need added is an -asobserved- option, which is the default for margins. At 50 pages, the manual entry for margins is a little daunting. I think it would be easier to understand if there were simpler commands that focused on specific tasks.
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