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Re: st: RE: How to generate binary y?
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Sumedha Gupta <[email protected]>
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Re: st: RE: How to generate binary y?
Date
Thu, 3 May 2012 18:04:31 -0400
Hi,
Thank you so much for your response. After I predict out of sample how
do I allocate 0/1 to the continuous predicted value i.e. what is the
cut off? Probably this is a very basic question but I will really
appreciate your help.
Sincerely,
Sumedha.
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sounds as if you just need to use -predict- after -probit-. -predict- will happily predict out-of-sample so long as all predictors in the model are non-missing.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
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> Sumedha Gupta
>
> I have 2 samples one in which both x and y are observed and the other
> in which only the x's are observed. Y is binary and some of the x's
> are binary as well. I ran a probit of y on x for sample 1 and got all
> the betas. Now using these beta's would it be possible to generate y
> in sample 2 as well? This would be easy to do in the linear case...
> but for a probit is there a command to do that? I will really
> appreciate your input.
>
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