Kristin J. Kleinjans asked
> I have 2 questions regarding the margeff command (that estimates
> averagemarginal effects) by Tamas Bartus. I am using Stata 8SE.
>
>
> 1. I get an error using the command but am not sure what this
> implies. I
> checked the "help for margeff" (May 22 2005) and the Stata Journal
> submission by Bartus (22 April 2005).
>
> estimates post: matrix has missing values
> r(504);
Thank you for the note. Your experiment suggests which part of the code is responsible for the
error message. I try to fix it as soon as possible.
I believe the results you get when you avoid the * abbreviation are correct.
> 2. Also, I was wondering if somebody knows how to determine the
> relative weights on the variables in using the lincom command to
> get the
> joint marginal effect for a variable which is included both by itself
> and as a square term?
The marginal effect of the age squared variable must be weighted by 2*mean(age), age itself
needs no weights.
Tamas
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Tamas Bartus, PhD
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Corvinus University Budapest
(formerly University of Economics)
1093 Budapest, Fovam ter 8.
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Homepage: www.uni-corvinus.hu/bartus
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