--- "Joao Ricardo F. Lima" <[email protected]> wrote:
> mfx (marginal effects) are change in probabilities, when we are using
> logit, mlogit ...
>
> margeff (partial effects) are change in probabilities too?
-mfx- will give you the first derivative, that is, the slope at a
choses value of x, while -margeff- will compare two points on the curve
one unit apart around that value. So -margeff- will give a discrete
approximation of the derivative.
-- Maarten
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