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Re: st: restricting margins to significant variables only
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Maarten buis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: restricting margins to significant variables only
Date
Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:23:54 +0000 (GMT)
--- On Fri, 18/3/11, Sunil Kumar wrote:
> I am estimating a logit model with several explanatory
> variables. Only some of these prove to be significant. I
> now want to use the margins command to obtain predicted
> probabilities and/or marginal effects. Is it advisable,
> and if so is there a way, to get margins to base its
> calculations on only those variables which are
> significant?
That is not advisable, see:
<http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/stat/stepwise.html>
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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