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Re: st: - xtlogit- and predictnl
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Ricardo Ovaldia <[email protected]>
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Re: st: - xtlogit- and predictnl
Date
Wed, 17 Aug 2011 07:05:55 -0700 (PDT)
My mistake, you are correct Maarten, they should be symmetric, and they are, in the or scale.
Okay, I think I got it. If I do not exp() the expression in -predictnl-, I will get the corret p-values.
Thank you again,
Ricardo
Ricardo Ovaldia, MS
Statistician
Oklahoma City, OK
Ricardo Ovaldia, MS
Statistician
Oklahoma City, OK
--- On Wed, 8/17/11, Maarten Buis <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: st: - xtlogit- and predictnl
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Wednesday, August 17, 2011, 8:49 AM
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 3:34 PM,
> Ricardo Ovaldia wrote:
> > predictnl or = exp(_b[1.group] +
> _b[1.group#c.year]*c.year), ci(lb ub) p(pval)
> >
> > but included the extra optiop -p()- to obtain
> p-values
> >
> > My question is why do the pvalues and the CI do not
> agree?
> > It seems like the CI are incorrect. They are not
> symmetric in the log-scale.
>
> I guess that the null-hypothesis is that the odds ratio
> equals 0,
> which does not make sense in this case, but how is Stata
> supposed to
> know that our expression happens to be an odds ratio? The
> confidence
> interval is symmetric in the or scale rather than the
> log(or) scale
> because -predictnl- just applies the delta method on our
> expression to
> get the standard errors and than moves on to use these to
> compute
> confidence intervals.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
>
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