Hi Richard,
Thank you very much. I checked the std. dev. of explanatory variables within
each category of y, and found that three missing dummy variables had no
variability, which actually caused the problem. Once I excluded these
variables, the standard errors of marginal effects became reasonable. The -
margeff- command works well and really fast. Thanks a lot.
Duan
Duan Peng
Department of Economics
University of Miami
Quoting Richard Williams <[email protected]>:
> At 03:23 PM 5/30/2006, [email protected] wrote:
> >When I calculate the marginal effects after multinomial logit model
> using the
> >command "mfx compute, predict (outcome(1))", Stata gives me very
> >large standard
> >errors and all p values are equal to 1. Dose anyone know the reason of
> this
> >problem and how to solve it? Many thanks.
>
> You might try getting the -margeff- command from SSC and see if it
> fares any better. If nothing else, it is faster. Include the
> -at(mean)- option to make it comparable to mfx.
>
> You might also try something like
>
> bysort y: sum x1 x2 x3 x4
>
> This will show you if, say, one or more of the xs has little or no
> variability within a category of y. That can sometimes cause
> problems. With multiple-outcome models like mlogit or gologit2,
> spreading the data too thin can create complications.
>
>
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