Louis,
Another measure I like to use is the Proportional Reduction in Errors (PRE) provided by the model. The nice thing about this measure is that it can be applied to all models and means (more or less) the same thing: a measure of the prediction provided by the model. There is a routine to do this at:
www.ucalgary.ca/~pemillar/stata.htm
After installation, you type pre after the estimation command.
Example:
mlogit nomvar iv1 iv2
pre
For logistic/probit models, lstat does this (it provides more information but is also less clear), but this also works for ordinal and multinomial models.
- Paul
----- Original Message -----
From: louis boakye-yiadom <[email protected]>
Date: Saturday, March 19, 2005 2:48 pm
Subject: Re: st: Predictive ability of probit model
> Thanks, Richard. What I'm looking for is the percentage of cases
> correctly
> predicted, as well as, the percentage incorrectly predicted. By
> the way, I
> just tried the lstat, but I got the following error message:
>
> . lstat;
> last estimates not found
> r(301);
>
> The lstat command just followed the "dprobit" command in my do
> file. Thank
> you.
>
> Louis
>
>
> >From: Richard Williams <[email protected]>
> >>Dear All,
> >>After estimating a probit model, how can I let stata provide me
> with the
> >>predictive ability of the model? I suspect this is easy to do,
> but I'm
> >>fairly new to stata and I couldn't find the answer from the
> online help
> >>feature. Many thanks.
> >>
> >>Louis
> >
> >Louis, could you clarify what you mean by "predictive ability" of
> a model?
> >There is the -lstat- command, which will show you the percentage
> of cases
> >correctly classified. The -predict- command can compute
> predicted
> >probabilities for each case, as well as residual statistics that
> indicate
> >problems in prediction. The default output includes various
> measures of
> >model fit, including the model chi-square and McFadden's Pseudo
> R^2; still
> >more can be obtained with the -fitstat- command that is part of -
> spostado-.
> > The -adjust- command is great for plugging in
> hypothetical/representative
> >values and seeing what the predicted probabilities are under the
> estimated
> >model (e.g. low income males, high income females.) If you can be
> more
> >specific about what you want, we might be able to point you in a
> specific
> >direction.
>
>
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