Giulio:
I think the easiest way to do it is not to store the results of -nlcom- but to store the function
in a local and use that repeatedly in -nlcom-. If you store the results of -nlcom- you do get the
variance of that statistic, but not the covariances with all other parameters and these matter
too.
Say we want the odds ratio of mpg and that odds ratio divided by the parameter of price. This is
done in example 1 below. Note that I stored the function not the value, i.e. there is no equal
sign after -local-. This means that `or' contains the string "exp(_b[mpg])" and not the number
1.2634. So after Stata has replaced the locals with their content it reads your command like
example 2. Using locals this way is not strictly necesary, you will get the same result if you
directly type in example two. But it usually makes your code a lot more readable, prefents lots of
frustrating typos and unmatched brackets. A much more elaborate example is given in
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2006-03/msg00825.html .
*------------begin example 1--------------
sysuse auto, clear
logit foreign mpg price
local or exp(_b[mpg])
nlcom (or: `or') /*
*/ (nonsense: `or'/_b[price])
*-------------end example 1-----------------
*------------begin example 2--------------
sysuse auto, clear
logit foreign mpg price
nlcom (or: exp(_b[mpg])) /*
*/ (nonsense: exp(_b[mpg])/_b[price])
*-------------end example 2-----------------
HTH,
Maarten
--- Giulio Zanella <[email protected]> wrote:
> (1) Use nlcom to compute a nonlinear function of coefficients, say the "or"
> function in the example below.
> (2) Use nlcom again to compute a nonlinear function of coefficients
> *involving the previously computed function*. For this Stata needs to use
> both coefficient and standard error of the previously computed function.
> These are stored in r(b) and r(V), but is there an easy way to use them in
> the nlcom command like we did with _b[mpg] below?
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