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Re: st: difficulty with aflogit command


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: difficulty with aflogit command
Date   Sun, 29 May 2011 10:56:11 +0100

If you rename -displacement- or clone it to have a name no more than 8
characters long you can get round the second problem in Stata 10.1.
The machine I am using does not have Stata 11, so I can not report on
that case.

Nick

On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> The version of -aflogit- you are using is, as you report, from STB-42
> in 1997 and I am not aware of a later version. My guess is that it is
> broken by later changes in official Stata. Thus the first command set
> you give does work in Stata 10.1, so my guess is that it is broken by
> some change in Stata 11. The second command set does not work in 10.1
> either. It looks like some bizarre side-effect of a change in Stata's
> limits, so that "displacement" is being separated into "displace" and
> "ment", but I haven't traced the error and I am not certain.
>
> But -aflogit- is broken so far as you are concerned and I can offer no
> solution for you except to find some other way of doing these
> calculations.
>
> Nick
>
> On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 6:54 AM, Ari Samaranayaka <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi
>> I am having difficulty with the user-written command aflogit.
>> Although it is expected to work after unconditional logit or poisson it does
>> not work for me.
>>
>> sysuse auto,clear
>> logit foreign mpg rep78
>> aflogit
>>
>> this produce
>>
>> Logistic regression                               Number of obs   =
>> 69
>>                                                  LR chi2(2)      =
>>  33.10
>>                                                  Prob > chi2     =
>> 0.0000
>> Log likelihood = -25.851693                       Pseudo R2       =
>> 0.3903
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>     foreign |      Coef.   Std. Err.      z    P>|z|     [95% Conf.
>> Interval]
>> -------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
>>         mpg |   .1328672   .0735776     1.81   0.071    -.0113423
>>  .2770767
>>       rep78 |    1.73607   .4928761     3.52   0.000     .7700508
>> 2.70209
>>       _cons |  -10.03775   2.407455    -4.17   0.000    -14.75628
>> -5.319226
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> .
>> . aflogit
>> Can only be used after unconditional logistic or poisson regression
>> last estimates not found
>> r(301);
>>
>> Then I used the following.
>>
>> poisson price weight   displacement
>> aflogit
>>
>> This produces
>>
>> Poisson regression                                Number of obs   =
>> 74
>>                                                  LR chi2(2)      =
>> 29652.15
>>                                                  Prob > chi2     =
>> 0.0000
>> Log likelihood = -29162.101                       Pseudo R2       =
>> 0.3370
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>       price |      Coef.   Std. Err.      z    P>|z|     [95% Conf.
>> Interval]
>> -------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
>>      weight |   .0003235   4.52e-06    71.55   0.000     .0003147
>>  .0003324
>> displacement |   .0000446    .000037     1.20   0.228     -.000028
>>  .0001172
>>       _cons |   7.708671   .0081077   950.79   0.000      7.69278
>>  7.724561
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> . aflogit
>>
>> Population attributable fraction from poisson regression
>> Cross-sectional / cohort data (n=74)
>>
>>
>> Term      Ref.     A.F.        s.e.      [95% Conf. Int.]*
>> ----------------------------------------------------------
>> weight     0      0.6355     11.9561   -3.03e+27   1.0000
>> ment not found
>> r(111);
>>
>> Can someone help me.
>> I am using stata SE 11.2.
>> my version of aflogit is
>> c:\ado\plus\a\aflogit.ado
>> *! version 1.0.6   16 Sep 1997  STB-42 sbe21
>>
>

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