Dear Ying,
When I use interactionterms within logistic regresion, I use the standard way of dealing with interactionterms on the output of -logit- itself before any other computation, like computing odds ratio's or marginal effects. This is what I meant with "raw" output. Since I often use many and/or complicated interactionterms I often do the computations by 'hand', well write code like those in the threads I refered to earlier, and not use -mfx- or the like.
Maarten
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Dear Maarten,
I am looking into the threads you provided. Just want to clear things a
little bit. When you say "yes" when B1 and B3 are "raw" output, what do
you mean "raw"? Is "mfx compute" relevant or not?
Ying
> Dear Ying,
>
> The answer is yes if B1 and B3 are 'raw' output from your logit model,
> otherwise the answer is no.
>
> Have a look at:
> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2005-03/msg00643.html . Also, a
> similar question (about getting marginal effects for a quadratic term
> instead of an interaction term) was asked last year and got some useful
> answers (if I say so myself). The thread started with:
> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2004-11/msg00254.html
>
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
>
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> model
>
> Dear listusers,
>
> I have a quick question about the marginal effect of logit model.
>
> Suppose I put black, female, and the interaction term of black and female
> (blackfem) in the logit model, and use "mfx compute" to obtain the
> marginal effects. My dependent variable is a dichotomous variable:
> person's working status. My model is:
>
> working status (Y) = B0 + black*B1 + female*B2 + blackfem*B3 + ... +
> error term.
>
> Regardless of the significance value, can I simply interpret B1-B3 as
> what we do for OLS? If not, how did you interpret them in English?
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Ying
>
>
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