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Re: st: Fwd: Ologit mfx question


From   Richard Williams <[email protected]>
To   [email protected], statalist <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: Fwd: Ologit mfx question
Date   Mon, 18 Feb 2013 22:00:26 -0500

You don't show your code, but I bet you did something like

use "http://www.indiana.edu/~jslsoc/stata/spex_data/ordwarm2.dta";, clear
ologit warm male
mfx

ologit is a multiple outcome command, and hence there are multiple marginal effects to compute. In this case the marginal effect tells that being male increases the likelihood of your being in category 1, which is consistent with what the coefficient estimates tell you. Instead, you ought to be doing something like

use "http://www.indiana.edu/~jslsoc/stata/spex_data/ordwarm2.dta";, clear
ologit warm male
mfx, predict(outcome(#1))
mfx, predict(outcome(#2))
mfx, predict(outcome(#3))
mfx, predict(outcome(#4))

Basically, the results tell you that being male increases the likelihood of being in the lower 2 categories and decreases the likelihood of being in the upper 2, which is consistent with the negative coefficient for male in the ologit results, i.e. if you are less likely to be in one category you have to be more likely to be in another.

You can make life a little simpler by using either -margeff- or -mfx2-, both of which can be downloaded from SSC.

Since you are using mfx, I assume you are using Stata 10 or lower. But if you are using Stata 11 or 12, the -margins- command is superior to -mfx-. But you still need to specify multiple outcomes.

At 09:41 PM 2/18/2013, ä¿?å?©,ä¿? Junli-Yu wrote:
Dear Statalister,

    The dependent var is Order value(0-1-2-3) ,and my key independent var is
dummy var(0-1). I regress my dataset by ologit that shows the coeffience is
positive significant relation, but by mfx shows the margin effect is
negative significant relation.

Whether it is wrong use mfx command. Because I recode my dependent var that
change to dummy variable (0-1),both the coeffience and margin effect are
same relation.
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