Re: st: what's an infinitesimal change in dprobit

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 12:17 PM 10/26/2005, Tom Bonen wrote:
> Hi Statalisters,
>
> in the dprobit help it reads "dprobit reports the marginal effect,
> that is the change in the probability for an infinitesimal change in
> each independent, continuous variable and, by default, reports the
> discrete change in the probability for dummy variables."
>
> What does "infinitesmal change" mean here exactly?
This was (for that matter, still is!) a weak area for me.  My feeble 
attempt to explain it is at

http://www.nd.edu/~rwilliam/xsoc694/x07.pdf


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