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Re: st: re-using estimates from previously estimated models and related issues
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Cameron McIntosh <[email protected]>
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Re: st: re-using estimates from previously estimated models and related issues
Date
Fri, 4 Nov 2011 16:20:31 -0400
It would help substantially to explain the ultimate purpose of this exercise... and an added bonus in that case is that one often finds out that the initial game plan is suboptimal, with superior ones being recommended. :)Cam
> > From: [email protected]
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: st: re-using estimates from previously estimated models and related issues
> > Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 11:41:02 -0400
> >
> > Dear Statalist members:
> >
> > I would like to run several regressions and save their estimates and
> > predicted values so that they can be used as inputs for some
> > calculations that will be done later in the code. I would like to do
> > this in the most efficient and flexible way possible...
> >
> > For simplicity let's assume this is the sequence of the things I need
> > to calculate:
> >
> > 1st stage
> >
> > logit y x1 x2
> > logit y x1 x3 x4
> > logit y x1 x4
> >
> > 2nd stage
> >
> > For each of the models above:
> >
> > gen totprob=sum(predicteprobs)
> > gen probx1= [coefficient for variable x1 ] * totprob
> > gen probx2= [coefficient for variable x2 ] * totprob
> > gen probx3= [coefficient for variable x3 ] * totprob
> >
> >
> > My questions are the following:
> > -Is it best to collect the estimates and predicted probs in a matrix
> > or in a data file?
> > -How to deal with the problem that I may have 3 model specifications
> > now but I may want to add (or remove) some specifications later? (i.e.
> > the number of model specifications is not always the same in different
> > runs of the do file)?
> > -How to deal with the fact that, in the second stage, some of the
> > values may not exist for some models (for example, there is no
> > coefficient for x2 in model specification 3 from the first stage)? (If
> > the coefficient was not estimated in a given model I would like Stata
> > not to calculate probx2)
> >
> >
> > Any suggestions are appreciated.
> > Thanks!
> > Ana
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