Re: st: Margins command

["Michael N. Mitchell" <Michael.Norman.Mitchell@gmail.com>]

Dear Robin

  I could not find anything in the help file that addressed this, so I made a simple 
example and it looks like -margins- is doing the computation based on the estimation 
sample. In the example below, the -regress- command yields N=22, and then the -margins- 
command also reflects N=22.

 sysuse auto
(1978 Automobile Data)

. regress price weight if foreign==1

      Source |       SS       df       MS              Number of obs =      22
-------------+------------------------------           F(  1,    20) =   72.66
       Model |   113204096     1   113204096           Prob > F      =  0.0000
    Residual |  31159116.4    20  1557955.82           R-squared     =  0.7842
-------------+------------------------------           Adj R-squared =  0.7734
       Total |   144363213    21   6874438.7           Root MSE      =  1248.2

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
       price |      Coef.   Std. Err.      t    P>|t|     [95% Conf. Interval]
-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
      weight |    5.36204   .6290375     8.52   0.000     4.049891    6.674189
       _cons |  -6033.316     1480.9    -4.07   0.001    -9122.419   -2944.213
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

. margins , at(weight=3000)

Adjusted predictions                              Number of obs   =         22
Model VCE    : OLS

Expression   : Linear prediction, predict()
at           : weight          =        3000

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
             |            Delta-method
             |     Margin   Std. Err.      z    P>|z|     [95% Conf. Interval]
-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
       _cons |    10052.8    505.955    19.87   0.000     9061.151    11044.46
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I hope this helps,

Michael N. Mitchell
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On 2011-01-13 9.29 PM, Robin Jeffries wrote:
> If I run a regression on a subset, for example
>
> xtlogit outcome var1 var2 if level==0
>
> and then ask for margins
>
> margins var1, at var2=1 predict(pu0)
>
> Will the predictions be for everyone? Or for those with level==0 only?
>
>
> -Robin Jeffries
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