Re: st: wish for logit output

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

At 11:51 AM 2/4/2007, Maarten buis wrote:
> Teaching logistic regression and the recent discussion with Diego
> Bassani made me remember a long standing wish for the output after
> -logit- with the or option (which I might forget again at the "wishes
> and grumbles" session at the German Stata Users' Group meeting on April
> 2nd): I would like to see the exp(_cons). This parameter represents the
> odds of success versus failure for someone whose xs are all zero. This
> helps me to assess the size of an effect. For instance, the odds ratio
> may tell me that the odds of success is twice as large for women then
> for men, but it makes a difference if the odds of success for men is .5
> or .05.
I agree.  SPSS provides this; and it gets around Maarten's labeling 
concern by labeling things as Exp(B).  I suppose there are concerns 
about consistency both across routines and across versions of 
Stata.  Perhaps some little option could be added for those who want 
to see the exponentiated constant.


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