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st: RE: xi3: mlogit effect coding


From   "Maarten Buis" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: xi3: mlogit effect coding
Date   Thu, 1 Feb 2007 10:44:48 +0100

--- Diego Bassani wrote:
> When I estimate two way interactions using xi3 and a mlogit model,
> the  rrr option is:
>
> a) an Odds Ratio
> b) a Prevalence rate Difference
> c) a Risk-Density
> 
> Since the betas are the deviance from the 'grand mean' of betas I am
> inclined to interpret it as a prevalence rate difference. I am
> seriously doubting myself on this one... any help?

A while ago Bobby Gutierrez wrote an extensive post on Statalist 
on the issue of odds ratios or relative risk ratios in 
multinomial logistic regression:
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2005-04/msg00678.html

Hope this helps,
Maarten

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