--- Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think in this the term
>
> _b[foreign]
>
> should be
>
> _b[foreign] * foreign
>
> and that
>
> _b[foreignXmpg] * mpg
>
> should be
>
> _b[foreignXmpg] * foreignXmpg
No, I am comparing for each value of mpg the predicted probability of
foreign cars with the predicted probabilities of domestic cars. To do
so I create a local `xb_for' which contains the linear predictor
assuming the car is foreign and a local `xb_dom' which contains the
linear predictor assuming that the car is domestic. (actually the
locals contain the commands that will create the linear predictors, but
that is a detail) Consider the code for the linear predictor assuming
that the cars are foreign.
#delim ;
local xb_for "_b[_cons] + _b[foreign] +
_b[mpg]*mpg + _b[foreignXmpg]*mpg" ;
#delim cr
In that case we know that the the variable foreign has value 1, so
_b[foreign]*foreign =
_b[foreign]*1 =
_b[foreign]
similarly:
_b[foreignXmpg]*foreign*mpg =
_b[foreignXmpg]*1*mpg =
_b[foreignXmpg]*mpg
-- Maarten
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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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